A Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDEDE| Sea beyond sea sand after sweep of sand | A |
| Here ivory smooth here cloven and ridged with flow | B |
| Of channelled waters soft as rain or snow | B |
| Stretch their lone length at ease beneath the bland | A |
| Grey gleam of skies whose smile on wave and strand | A |
| Shines weary like a man's who smiles to know | B |
| That now no dream can mock his faith with show | B |
| Nor cloud for him seem living sea or land | A |
| Is there an end at all of all this waste | C |
| These crumbling cliffs defeatured and defaced | C |
| These ruinous heights of sea sapped walls that slide | D |
| Seaward with all their banks of bleak blown flowers | E |
| Glad yet of life ere yet their hope subside | D |
| Beneath the coil of dull dense waves and hours | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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