Neap-tide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCDDCDEFFEFGHIGI JKKJKLMMLMNOONOPQQPQ RSSRSTOOTOUOOUOVWWVW XYYXY

Far off is the sea and the land is afarA
The low banks reach at the skyB
Seen hence and are heavenward highB
Though light for the leap of a boy they areA
And the far sea late was nighB
The fair wild fields and the circling downsC
The bright sweet marshes and meadsD
All glorious with flowerlike weedsD
The great grey churches the sea washed townsC
Recede as a dream recedesD
The world draws back and the world's light wanesE
As a dream dies down and is deadF
And the clouds and the gleams overheadF
Change and change and the sea remainsE
A shadow of dreamlike dreadF
Wild and woful and pale and greyG
A shadow of sleepless fearH
A corpse with the night for bierI
The fairest thing that beholds the dayG
Lies haggard and hopeless hereI
And the wind's wings broken and spent subsideJ
And the dumb waste world is hoarK
And strange as the sea the shoreK
And shadows of shapeless dreams abideJ
Where life may abide no moreK
A sail to seaward a sound from shorewardL
And the spell were broken that seemsM
To reign in a world of dreamsM
Where vainly the dreamer's feet make forwardL
And vainly the low sky gleamsM
The sea forsaken forlorn deep wrinkledN
Salt slanting stretches of sandO
That slope to the seaward handO
Were they fain of the ripples that flashed and twinkledN
And laughed as they struck the strandO
As bells on the reins of the fairies ringP
The ripples that kissed them rangQ
The light from the sundawn sprangQ
And the sweetest of songs that the world may singP
Was theirs when the full sea sangQ
Now no light is in heaven and nowR
Not a note of the sea wind's tuneS
Rings hither the bleak sky's boonS
Grants hardly sight of a grey sun's browR
A sun more sad than the moonS
More sad than a moon that clouds beleaguerT
And storm is a scourge to smiteO
The sick sun's shadowlike lightO
Grows faint as the clouds and the waves wax eagerT
And withers away from sightO
The day's heart cowers and the night's heart quickensU
Full fain would the day be deadO
And the stark night reign in his steadO
The sea falls dumb as the sea fog thickensU
And the sunset dies for dreadO
Outside of the range of time whose breathV
Is keen as the manslayer's knifeW
And his peace but a truce for strifeW
Who knows if haply the shadow of deathV
May be not the light of lifeW
For the storm and the rain and the darkness borrowX
But an hour from the suns to beY
But a strange swift passage that weY
May rejoice who have mourned not to day to morrowX
In the sun and the wind and the seaY

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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