Sea Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CACAA DEFEE GAGAA HGHGG IJIJJ KLKLL MGMGG NANAA O| Strange Sea why is it that you never rest | A |
| And tell me why you never go to sleep | B |
| Thou art like one so sad and sin oppressed | A |
| And the waves are the tears you weep | B |
| And thou didst never sin what ails the sinless deep | B |
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| To night I hear you crying on the beach | C |
| Like a weary child on its mother's breast | A |
| A cry with an infinite and lonesome reach | C |
| Of unutterably deep unrest | A |
| And thou didst never sin why art thou so distressed | A |
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| But ah sad Sea the mother's breast is warm | D |
| Where crieth the lone and the wearied child | E |
| And soft the arms that shield her own from harm | F |
| And her look is unutterably mild | E |
| But to night O Sea thy cry is wild so wild | E |
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| What ails thee Sea The midnight stars are bright | G |
| How safe they lean on heaven's sinless breast | A |
| O Sea is the beach too hard tho' e'er so white | G |
| To give thy utter weariness a rest | A |
| And to night the winds are a coming from the West | A |
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| Where the shadows moan o'er the day's life done | H |
| And the darkness is waiting for the light | G |
| Ah me how the shadows ever seek and shun | H |
| The sacred radiant faces of the bright | G |
| And the stars are the vestal virgins of the night | G |
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| Or am I dreaming Do I see and hear | I |
| Without me what I feel within | J |
| Is there an inner eye and an inner ear | I |
| Thro' which the sounds and silences float in | J |
| In reflex of the spirit's calm or troublous din | J |
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| I know not After all what do I know | K |
| Save only this and that is mystery | L |
| Like the sea my spirit hath its ebb and flow | K |
| In unison and the tides of the sea | L |
| Ever reflect the ceaseless tides of thoughts in me | L |
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| Waves are ye priests in surplices of gray | M |
| Fringed by the fingers of the breeze with white | G |
| Is the beach your altar where ye come to pray | M |
| With the sea's ritual every day and night | G |
| And the suns and stars your only altar light | G |
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| Great Sea the very rhythm of my song | N |
| And the winds are a coming from the West | A |
| Like thy waves moveth uncertainly along | N |
| And my thoughts like thy tide with a snow white crest | A |
| Flow and ebb ebb and flow with thy own unrest | A |
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| Biloxi Miss | O |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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