A Song Of Pitcairn's Island Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDD EFEFAAFGG HIHI JJIKK LMLMNNMOO PQPQJJQLL| Come take our boy and we will go | A |
| Before our cabin door | B |
| The winds shall bring us as they blow | A |
| The murmurs of the shore | B |
| And we will kiss his young blue eyes | C |
| And I will sing him as he lies | C |
| Songs that were made of yore | B |
| I'll sing in his delighted ear | D |
| The island lays thou lov'st to hear | D |
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| And thou while stammering I repeat | E |
| Thy country's tongue shalt teach | F |
| 'Tis not so soft but far more sweet | E |
| Than my own native speech | F |
| For thou no other tongue didst know | A |
| When scarcely twenty moons ago | A |
| Upon Tahete's beach | F |
| Thou cam'st to woo me to be thine | G |
| With many a speaking look and sign | G |
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| I knew thy meaning thou didst praise | H |
| My eyes my locks of jet | I |
| Ah well for me they won thy gaze | H |
| But thine were fairer yet | I |
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| I'm glad to see my infant wear | J |
| Thy soft blue eyes and sunny hair | J |
| And when my sight is met | I |
| By his white brow and blooming cheek | K |
| I feel a joy I cannot speak | K |
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| Come talk of Europe's maids with me | L |
| Whose necks and cheeks they tell | M |
| Outshine the beauty of the sea | L |
| White foam and crimson shell | M |
| I'll shape like theirs my simple dress | N |
| And bind like them each jetty tress | N |
| A sight to please thee well | M |
| And for my dusky brow will braid | O |
| A bonnet like an English maid | O |
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| Come for the soft low sunlight calls | P |
| We lose the pleasant hours | Q |
| 'Tis lovelier than these cottage walls | P |
| That seat among the flowers | Q |
| And I will learn of thee a prayer | J |
| To Him who gave a home so fair | J |
| A lot so blessed as ours | Q |
| The God who made for thee and me | L |
| This sweet lone isle amid the sea | L |
William Cullen Bryant
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