A Ballad At Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCDCDDAABABCDCDD AABABCDCDDCDCDD| Sea to sea that clasps and fosters England uttering ever more | A |
| Song eterne and praise immortal of the indomitable shore | A |
| Lifts aloud her constant heart up south to north and east to west | B |
| Here in speech that shames all music there in thunder throated roar | A |
| Chiming concord out of discord waking rapture out of rest | B |
| All her ways are lovely all her works and symbols are divine | C |
| Yet shall man love best what first bade leap his heart and bend his knee | D |
| Yet where first his whole soul worshipped shall his soul set up her shrine | C |
| Nor may love not know the lovelier fair as both beheld may be | D |
| Here the limitless north eastern there the strait south western sea | D |
| Though their chant bear all one burden as ere man was born it bore | A |
| Though the burden be diviner than the songs all souls adore | A |
| Yet may love not choose but choose between them which to love the best | B |
| Me the sea my nursing mother me the Channel green and hoar | A |
| Holds at heart more fast than all things bares for me the goodlier breast | B |
| Lifts for me the lordlier love song bids for me more sunlight shine | C |
| Sounds for me the stormier trumpet of the sweeter strain to me | D |
| So the broad pale Thames is loved not like the tawny springs of Tyne | C |
| Choice is clear between them for the soul whose vision holds in fee | D |
| Here the limitless north eastern there the strait south western sea | D |
| Choice is clear but dear is either nor has either not in store | A |
| Many a likeness many a written sign of spirit searching lore | A |
| Whence the soul takes fire of sweet remembrance magnified and blest | B |
| Thought of songs whose flame winged feet have trod the unfooted water floor | A |
| When the lord of all the living lords of souls bade speed their quest | B |
| Soft live sound like children's babble down the rippling sand's incline | C |
| Or the lovely song that loves them hailed with thankful prayer and plea | D |
| These are parcels of the harvest here whose gathered sheaves are mine | C |
| Garnered now but sown and reaped where winds make wild with wrath or glee | D |
| Here the limitless north eastern there the strait south western sea | D |
| Song thy name is freedom seeing thy strength was born of breeze and brine | C |
| Fare now forth and fear no fortune such a seal is set on thee | D |
| Joy begat and memory bare thee seeing in spirit a two fold sign | C |
| Even the sign of those thy fosters each as thou from all time free | D |
| Here the limitless north eastern there the strait south western sea | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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