Lines -- 1875 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABBBB DBDDDBBBB EBEEEBBBB FBFFFBBBB GBGGGBBBB HBHHHBBBB| Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore | A |
| And ask of them why do they sigh | B |
| The poets have asked them a thousand times o'er | C |
| But they're kissing the shore as they kissed it before | A |
| And they're sighing to day and they'll sigh evermore | A |
| Ask them what ails them they will not reply | B |
| But they'll sigh on forever and never tell why | B |
| Why does your poetry sound like a sigh | B |
| The waves will not answer you neither shall I | B |
| - | |
| Go stand on the beach of the blue boundless deep | D |
| When the night stars are gleaming on high | B |
| And hear how the billows are moaning in sleep | D |
| On the low lying strand by the surge beaten steep | D |
| They're moaning forever wherever they sweep | D |
| Ask them what ails them they never reply | B |
| They moan and so sadly but will not tell why | B |
| Why does your poetry sound like a sigh | B |
| The waves will not answer you neither shall I | B |
| - | |
| Go list to the breeze at the waning of day | E |
| When it passes and murmurs Good bye | B |
| The dear little breeze how it wishes to stay | E |
| Where the flowers are in bloom where the singing birds play | E |
| How it sighs when it flies on its wearisome way | E |
| Ask it what ails it it will not reply | B |
| Its voice is a sad one it never told why | B |
| Why does your poetry sound like a sigh | B |
| The breeze will not answer you neither shall I | B |
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| Go watch the wild blasts as they spring from their lair | F |
| When the shout of the storm rends the sky | B |
| They rush o'er the earth and they ride thro' the air | F |
| And they blight with their breath all the lovely and fair | F |
| And they groan like the ghosts in the land of despair | F |
| Ask them what ails them they never reply | B |
| Their voices are mournful they will not tell why | B |
| Why does your poetry sound like a sigh | B |
| The blasts will not answer you neither shall I | B |
| - | |
| Go stand on the rivulet's lily fringed side | G |
| Or list where the rivers rush by | B |
| The streamlets which forest trees shadow and hide | G |
| And the rivers that roll in their oceanward tide | G |
| Are moaning forever wherever they glide | G |
| Ask them what ails them they will not reply | B |
| On sad voiced they flow but they never tell why | B |
| Why does your poetry sound like a sigh | B |
| Earth's streams will not answer you neither shall I | B |
| - | |
| Go list to the voices of air earth and sea | H |
| And the voices that sound in the sky | B |
| Their songs may be joyful to some but to me | H |
| There's a sigh in each chord and a sigh in each key | H |
| And thousands of sighs swell their grand melody | H |
| Ask them what ails them they will not reply | B |
| They sigh sigh forever but never tell why | B |
| Why does your poetry sound like a sigh | B |
| Their lips will not answer you neither shall I | B |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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