A Ballad Of Sark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDCDEBABBCCDCD ABABBFCDCDCCDCD| High beyond the granite portal arched across | A |
| Like the gateway of some godlike giant's hold | B |
| Sweep and swell the billowy breasts of moor and moss | A |
| East and westward and the dell their slopes enfold | B |
| Basks in purple glows in green exults in gold | B |
| Glens that know the dove and fells that hear the lark | C |
| Fill with joy the rapturous island as an ark | C |
| Full of spicery wrought from herb and flower and tree | D |
| None would dream that grief even here may disembark | C |
| On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea | D |
| Rocks emblazoned like the mid shield's royal boss | E |
| Take the sun with all their blossom broad and bold | B |
| None would dream that all this moorland's glow and gloss | A |
| Could be dark as tombs that strike the spirit acold | B |
| Even in eyes that opened here and here behold | B |
| Now no sun relume from hope's belated spark | C |
| Any comfort nor may ears of mourners hark | C |
| Though the ripe woods ring with golden throated glee | D |
| While the soul lies shattered like a stranded bark | C |
| On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea | D |
| Death and doom are they whose crested triumphs toss | A |
| On the proud plumed waves whence mourning notes are tolled | B |
| Wail of perfect woe and moan for utter loss | A |
| Raise the bride song through the graveyard on the wold | B |
| Where the bride bed keeps the bridegroom fast in mould | B |
| Where the bride with death for priest and doom for clerk | F |
| Hears for choir the throats of waves like wolves that bark | C |
| Sore anhungered off the drear Eperquerie | D |
| Fain to spoil the strongholds of the strength of Sark | C |
| On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea | D |
| Prince of storm and tempest lord whose ways are dark | C |
| Wind whose wings are spread for flight that none may mark | C |
| Lightly dies the joy that lives by grace of thee | D |
| Love through thee lies bleeding hope lies cold and stark | C |
| On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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