Admiral Guinea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEEFFGGHHIJJKK LLMMNNOOPPQQRR SSMMTT| By W E Henley and R L Stevenson Avenue Theatre Monday November | A |
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| Spoken by Miss ELIZABETH ROBINS | B |
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| Once was an Age an Age of blood and gold | C |
| An Age of shipmen scoundrelly and bold | C |
| BLACKBEARD and AVORY SINGLETON ROBERTS KIDD | D |
| An Age which seemed the while it rolled its quid | D |
| Brave with adventure and doubloons and crime | E |
| Rum and the Ebony Trade when time on time | E |
| Real Pirates right Sea Highwaymen could mock | F |
| The carrion strung at EXECUTION DOCK | F |
| And the trim Slaver with her raking rig | G |
| Her cloud of sails her spars superb and trig | G |
| Held in a villainous ecstasy of gain | H |
| Her musky course from BENIN to the MAIN | H |
| And back again for niggers | I |
| When in fine | J |
| Some thought that EDEN bloomed across the Line | J |
| And some like COWPER'S NEWTON lived to tell | K |
| That through those parallels ran the road to Hell | K |
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| Once was a pair of Friends who loved to chance | L |
| Their feet in any by way of Romance | L |
| They like two vagabond schoolboys unafraid | M |
| Of stark impossibilities essayed | M |
| To make these Penitent and Impenitent Thieves | N |
| These PEWS and GAUNTS each man of them with his sheaves | N |
| Of humour passion cruelty tyranny life | O |
| Fit shadows for the boards till in the strife | O |
| Of dream with dream their Slaver Saint came true | P |
| And their Blind Pirate their resurgent PEW | P |
| A figure of deadly farce in his new birth | Q |
| Tap tapped his way from ORCUS back to earth | Q |
| And so their Lover and his Lass made one | R |
| In their best prose this Admiral here was done | R |
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| One of this Pair sleeps till the crack of doom | S |
| Where the great ocean rollers plunge and boom | S |
| The other waits and wonders what his Friend | M |
| Dead now and deaf and silent were the end | M |
| Revealed to his rare spirit would find to say | T |
| If you his lovers loved him for this Play | T |
William Ernest Henley
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