Sea Rest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGHGCC IJIJCC IKIKCC LMLMCC NONPCC QRQRCC SESECC TUTUCC CACACC VGVGCC W| Far from where the roses rest | A |
| Round the altar and the aisle | B |
| Which I loved of all the best | A |
| I have come to rest awhile | B |
| By the ever restless sea | C |
| Will its waves give rest to me | C |
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| But it is so hard to part | D |
| With my roses Do they know | E |
| Who knows but each has a heart | D |
| How it grieves my heart to go | E |
| Roses will the restless sea | C |
| Bring as ye a rest for me | C |
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| Ye were sweet and still and calm | F |
| Roses red and roses white | G |
| And ye sang a soundless psalm | H |
| For me in the day and night | G |
| Roses will the restless sea | C |
| Sing as sweet as ye for me | C |
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| Just a hundred feet away | I |
| Seaward flows and ebbs the tide | J |
| And the wavelets blue and gray | I |
| Moan and white sails windward glide | J |
| O'er the ever restless sea | C |
| From me far and peacefully | C |
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| And as many feet away | I |
| Landward rise the moss veiled trees | K |
| And they wail the while they sway | I |
| In the sad November breeze | K |
| Echoes in the sighing sea | C |
| To me near and mournfully | C |
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| And beside me sleep the dead | L |
| In the consecrated ground | M |
| Blessed crosses o'er each head | L |
| O'er them all the Requiem sound | M |
| Chanted by the moaning sea | C |
| Echoed by each moss veiled tree | C |
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| Roses will you miss my face | N |
| Do you know that I have gone | O |
| From your fair and restful place | N |
| Far away where moveth on | P |
| Night and day the restless sea | C |
| But I saw eternity | C |
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| In your faces Roses sweet | Q |
| Ye were but the virgin veils | R |
| Hiding Him whose holy feet | Q |
| Walked the waves whose very wails | R |
| Bring to me from Galilee | C |
| Rest across the restless sea | C |
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| And who knows mayhap some wave | S |
| From His footstep long ago | E |
| With the blessing which He gave | S |
| After ages ebb and flow | E |
| Cometh in from yonder sea | C |
| With a blessing sweet for me | C |
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| Just last night I watched the deep | T |
| And it shone as shines a shrine | U |
| Vigils such I often keep | T |
| And the stars did sweetly shine | U |
| O'er the altar of the sea | C |
| So they shone in Galilee | C |
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| Roses round the shrine and aisle | C |
| Which of all I loved the best | A |
| I have gone to rest awhile | C |
| Where the wavelets never rest | A |
| Ye are dearer far to me | C |
| Than the ever restless sea | C |
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| I will come to you in dreams | V |
| In the day and in the night | G |
| When the sun's or starlight's gleams | V |
| Robe you in your red or white | G |
| Roses will you dream of me | C |
| By the ever restless sea | C |
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| Biloxi Miss | W |
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