Dedication To Edward John Trelawny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDCDEDEFE| A sea mew on a sea king's wrist alighting | A |
| As the north sea wind caught and strained and curled | B |
| The raven figured flag that led men fighting | A |
| From field to green field of the water world | B |
| Might find such brief high favour at his hand | C |
| For wings imbrued with brine with foam impearled | C |
| As these my songs require at yours on land | C |
| That durst not save for love's free sake require | D |
| Being lightly born between the foam and sand | C |
| But reared by hope and memory and desire | D |
| Of lives that were and life that is to be | E |
| Even such as filled his heavenlier song with fire | D |
| Whose very voice that sang to set man free | E |
| Was in your ears as ever in ours his lyre | F |
| Once ere the flame received him from the sea | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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