To Zoe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFE GHIH JKL| Against the groaning mast I stand | A |
| The Atlantic surges swell | B |
| To bear me from my native land | A |
| And Zoe's wild farewell | B |
| - | |
| From billow upon billow hurl'd | C |
| I can yet hear her say | D |
| And is there nothing in the world | C |
| Worth one short hour's delay ' | - |
| - | |
| Alas my Zoe were it thus | E |
| I should not sail alone | F |
| Nor seas nor fates had parted us | E |
| But are you all my own ' | - |
| - | |
| Thus were it never would burst forth | G |
| My sighs Heaven knows how true | H |
| But though to me of little worth | I |
| The world is much to you | H |
| - | |
| Yes ' you shall say when once the dream | J |
| So hard to break is o'er | K |
| My love was very dear to him | L |
| My fame and peace were more ' | - |
Walter Savage Landor
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