A Midsummer Holiday:- V. A Sea-mark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABAABABBABAABAB BABABABA| Rains have left the sea banks ill to climb | A |
| Waveward sinks the loosening seaboard's floor | B |
| Half the sliding cliffs are mire and slime | A |
| Earth a fruit rain rotted to the core | B |
| Drops dissolving down in flakes that pour | B |
| Dense as gouts from eaves grown foul with grime | A |
| One sole rock which years that scathe not score | B |
| Stands a sea mark in the tides of time | A |
| Time were even as even the rainiest clime | A |
| Life were even as even this lapsing shore | B |
| Might not aught outlive their trustless prime | A |
| Vainly fear would wail or hope implore | B |
| Vainly grief revile or love adore | B |
| Seasons clothed in sunshine rain or rime | A |
| Now for me one comfort held in store | B |
| Stands a sea mark in the tides of time | A |
| Once by fate's default or chance's crime | A |
| Each apart our burdens each we bore | B |
| Heard in monotones like bells that chime | A |
| Chime the sounds of sorrows float and soar | B |
| Joy's full carols near or far before | B |
| Heard not yet across the alternate rhyme | A |
| Time's tongue tell what sign set fast of yore | B |
| Stands a sea mark in the tides of time | A |
| Friend the sign we knew not heretofore | B |
| Towers in sight here present and sublime | A |
| Faith in faith established evermore | B |
| Stands a sea mark in the tides of time | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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