The Dread Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB AAABCCCB CCCBBBBB BBBBDDDB EEEBDDDB| Trim the sails the weird stars under | A |
| Past the iron hail and thunder | A |
| Past the mystery and the wonder | A |
| Sails our fated bark | B |
| Past the myriad voices hailing | C |
| Past the moaning and the wailing | C |
| The far voices failing failing | C |
| Drive we to the dark | B |
| - | |
| Past the headlands grim and sombre | A |
| Past the shores of mist and slumber | A |
| Leagues on leagues no man may number | A |
| Soundings none can mark | B |
| While the olden voices calling | C |
| One by one behind are falling | C |
| Into silence dread appalling | C |
| Drift we to the dark | B |
| - | |
| Far behind the sad eyes yearning | C |
| Hands that wring for our returning | C |
| Lamps of love yet vainly burning | C |
| Past the headlands stark | B |
| Through the wintry snows and sleeting | B |
| On our pallid faces beating | B |
| Through the phantom twilight fleeting | B |
| Drive we to the dark | B |
| - | |
| Without knowledge without warning | B |
| Drive we to no lands of morning | B |
| Far ahead no signals horning | B |
| Hail our nightward bark | B |
| Hopeless helpless weird outdriven | D |
| Fateless friendless dread unshriven | D |
| For some race doom unforgiven | D |
| Drive we to the dark | B |
| - | |
| Not one craven or unseemly | E |
| In the flare light gleaming dimly | E |
| Each ghost face is watching grimly | E |
| Past the headlands stark | B |
| Hearts wherein no hope may waken | D |
| Like the clouds of night wind shaken | D |
| Chartless anchorless forsaken | D |
| Drift we to the dark | B |
William Wilfred Campbell
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Dread Voyage poem by William Wilfred Campbell
leezah: your kind of doing good in composing
Best Poems of William Wilfred Campbell