Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACB DEDDDE DCDDFC GHGGDH DIDDDI JIJJKI JKJJLK DMDDNM DDDDLD GOGGPO DQDDRQ DSDDRS DIDDDI TUVWXU YCYYDC JBJJFB DBDDZB A2IA2A2DI| One idle day | A |
| A mile or so of sunlit waves off shore | B |
| In a breezeless bay | A |
| We listless lay | A |
| Our boat a dream of rest on the still sea | C |
| And we were four | B |
| - | |
| The wind had died | D |
| That all day long sang songs unto the deep | E |
| It was eventide | D |
| And far and wide | D |
| Sweet silence crept thro' the rifts of sound | D |
| With spells of sleep | E |
| - | |
| Our gray sail cast | D |
| The only cloud that flecked the foamless sea | C |
| And weary at last | D |
| Beside the mast | D |
| One fell to slumber with a dreamy face | F |
| And we were three | C |
| - | |
| No ebb no flow | G |
| No sound no stir in the wide wondrous calm | H |
| In the sunset's glow | G |
| The shore shelved low | G |
| And snow white from far ridges screened with shade | D |
| Of drooping palm | H |
| - | |
| Our hearts were hushed | D |
| All light seemed melting into boundless blue | I |
| But the west was flushed | D |
| Where sunset blushed | D |
| Thro' clouds of roses when another slept | D |
| And we were two | I |
| - | |
| How still the air | J |
| Not e'en a sea bird o'er us waveward flew | I |
| Peace rested there | J |
| Light everywhere | J |
| Nay Light some shadows fell on that fair scene | K |
| And we are two | I |
| - | |
| Some shadows Where | J |
| No matter where all shadows are not seen | K |
| For clouds of care | J |
| To skies all fair | J |
| Will sudden rise as tears to shining eyes | L |
| And dim their sheen | K |
| - | |
| We spake no word | D |
| Tho' each I ween did hear the other's soul | M |
| Not a wavelet stirred | D |
| And yet we heard | D |
| The loneliest music of the weariest waves | N |
| That ever roll | M |
| - | |
| Yea Peace you swayed | D |
| Your sceptre jeweled with the evening light | D |
| And then you said | D |
| Here falls no shade | D |
| Here floats no sound and all the seas and skies | L |
| Sleep calm and bright | D |
| - | |
| Nay Peace not so | G |
| The wildest waves may feel thy sceptre's spell | O |
| And fear to flow | G |
| But to and fro | G |
| Beyond their reach lone waves on troubled seas | P |
| Will sink and swell | O |
| - | |
| No word e'en yet | D |
| Were our eyes speaking while they watched the sky | Q |
| And in the sunset | D |
| Infinite regret | D |
| Swept sighing from the skies into our souls | R |
| I wonder why | Q |
| - | |
| A half hour passed | D |
| 'Twas more than half an age 'tis ever thus | S |
| Words came at last | D |
| Fluttering and fast | D |
| As shadows veiling sunsets in the souls | R |
| Of each of us | S |
| - | |
| The noiseless night | D |
| Sped flitting like a ghost where waves of blue | I |
| Lost all their light | D |
| As lips once bright | D |
| Whence smiles have fled we or the wavelets sighed | D |
| And we were two | I |
| - | |
| The day had gone | T |
| And on the dim high altar of the dark | U |
| Stars one by one | V |
| Far faintly shone | W |
| The moonlight trembled like a mother's smile | X |
| Upon our bark | U |
| - | |
| We softly spoke | Y |
| The waves seemed listening on the lonely sea | C |
| The winds awoke | Y |
| Our whispers broke | Y |
| The spell of silence and two eyes unclosed | D |
| And we were three | C |
| - | |
| The breeze blows fair | J |
| He said the waking waves set towards the shore | B |
| The long brown hair | J |
| Of the other there | J |
| Who slumbered near the mast with dreamy face | F |
| Stirred we were four | B |
| - | |
| That starry night | D |
| A mile or so of shadows from the shore | B |
| Two faces bright | D |
| With laughter light | D |
| Shone on two souls like stars that shine on shrines | Z |
| And we were four | B |
| - | |
| Over the reach | A2 |
| Of dazzling waves our boat like wild bird flew | I |
| We reached the beach | A2 |
| Nor song nor speech | A2 |
| Shall ever tell our sacramental thought | D |
| When we were two | I |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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