A Midsummer Holiday:- Vii. In The Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDCDABABBCCDCD ABABBCCDCDCCDCD| The sea is awake and the sound of the song of the joy of her waking is rolled | A |
| From afar to the star that recedes from anear to the wastes of the wild wide shore | B |
| Her call is a trumpet compelling us homeward if dawn in her east be acold | A |
| From the sea shall we crave not her grace to rekindle the life that it kindled before | B |
| Her breath to requicken her bosom to rock us her kisses to bless as of yore | B |
| For the wind with his wings half open at pause in the sky neither fettered nor free | C |
| Leans waveward and flutters the ripple to laughter and fain would the twain of us be | C |
| Where lightly the wave yearns forward from under the curve of the deep dawn's dome | D |
| And full of the morning and fired with the pride of the glory thereof and the glee | C |
| Strike out from the shore as the heart in us bids and beseeches athirst for the foam | D |
| Life holds not an hour that is better to live in the past is a tale that is told | A |
| The future a sun flecked shadow alive and asleep with a blessing in store | B |
| As we give us again to the waters the rapture of limbs that the waters enfold | A |
| Is less than the rapture of spirit whereby though the burden it quits were sore | B |
| Our souls and the bodies they wield at their will are absorbed in the life they adore | B |
| In the life that endures no burden and bows not the forehead and bends not the knee | C |
| In the life everlasting of earth and of heaven in the laws that atone and agree | C |
| In the measureless music of things in the fervour of forces that rest or that roam | D |
| That cross and return and reissue as I after you and as you after me | C |
| Strike out from the shore as the heart in us bids and beseeches athirst for the foam | D |
| For albeit he were less than the least of them haply the heart of a man may be bold | A |
| To rejoice in the word of the sea as a mother's that saith to the son she bore | B |
| Child was not the life in thee mine and my spirit the breath in thy lips from of old | A |
| Have I let not thy weakness exult in my strength and thy foolishness learn of my lore | B |
| Have I helped not or healed not thine anguish or made not the might of thy gladness more | B |
| And surely his heart should answer The light of the love of my life is in thee | C |
| She is fairer than earth and the sun is not fairer the wind is not blither than she | C |
| From my youth hath she shown me the joy of her bays that I crossed of her cliffs that I clomb | D |
| Till now that the twain of us here in desire of the dawn and in trust of the sea | C |
| Strike out from the shore as the heart in us bids and beseeches athirst for the foam | D |
| Friend earth is a harbour of refuge for winter a covert whereunder to flee | C |
| When day is the vassal of night and the strength of the hosts of her mightier than he | C |
| But here is the presence adored of me here my desire is at rest and at home | D |
| There are cliffs to be climbed upon land there are ways to be trodden and ridden but we | C |
| Strike out from the shore as the heart in us bids and beseeches athirst for the foam | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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