To A Seamew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCABABCDEECDCDFCGG FCFCECHHECECCDAACDCD AIAAAIAICCHHCCCCAJAA AJAJKLEEKMKLEEFFEEEE ANAAANANEFGGEFEFAJAA AJAJAEJJAEAEACCCACAC| When I had wings my brother | A |
| Such wings were mine as thine | B |
| Such life my heart remembers | C |
| In all as wild Septembers | C |
| As this when life seems other | A |
| Though sweet than once was mine | B |
| When I had wings my brother | A |
| Such wings were mine as thine | B |
| Such life as thrills and quickens | C |
| The silence of thy flight | D |
| Or fills thy note's elation | E |
| With lordlier exultation | E |
| Than man's whose faint heart sickens | C |
| With hopes and fears that blight | D |
| Such life as thrills and quickens | C |
| The silence of thy flight | D |
| Thy cry from windward clanging | F |
| Makes all the cliffs rejoice | C |
| Though storm clothe seas with sorrow | G |
| Thy call salutes the morrow | G |
| While shades of pain seem hanging | F |
| Round earth's most rapturous voice | C |
| Thy cry from windward clanging | F |
| Makes all the cliffs rejoice | C |
| We sons and sires of seamen | E |
| Whose home is all the sea | C |
| What place man may we claim it | H |
| But thine whose thought may name it | H |
| Free birds live higher than freemen | E |
| And gladlier ye than we | C |
| We sons and sires of seamen | E |
| Whose home is all the sea | C |
| For you the storm sounds only | C |
| More notes of more delight | D |
| Than earth's in sunniest weather | A |
| When heaven and sea together | A |
| Join strengths against the lonely | C |
| Lost bark borne down by night | D |
| For you the storm sounds only | C |
| More notes of more delight | D |
| With wider wing and louder | A |
| Long clarion call of joy | I |
| Thy tribe salutes the terror | A |
| Of darkness wild as error | A |
| But sure as truth and prouder | A |
| Than waves with man for toy | I |
| With wider wing and louder | A |
| Long clarion call of joy | I |
| The wave's wing spreads and flutters | C |
| The wave's heart swells and breaks | C |
| One moment's passion thrills it | H |
| One pulse of power fulfils it | H |
| And ends the pride it utters | C |
| When loud with life that quakes | C |
| The wave's wing spreads and flutters | C |
| The wave's heart swells and breaks | C |
| But thine and thou my brother | A |
| Keep heart and wing more high | J |
| Than aught may scare or sunder | A |
| The waves whose throats are thunder | A |
| Fall hurtling each on other | A |
| And triumph as they die | J |
| But thine and thou my brother | A |
| Keep heart and wing more high | J |
| More high than wrath or anguish | K |
| More strong than pride or fear | L |
| The sense or soul half hidden | E |
| In thee for us forbidden | E |
| Bids thee nor change nor languish | K |
| But live thy life as here | M |
| More high than wrath or anguish | K |
| More strong than pride or fear | L |
| We are fallen even we whose passion | E |
| On earth is nearest thine | E |
| Who sing and cease from flying | F |
| Who live and dream of dying | F |
| Grey time in time's grey fashion | E |
| Bids wingless creatures pine | E |
| We are fallen even we whose passion | E |
| On earth is nearest thine | E |
| The lark knows no such rapture | A |
| Such joy no nightingale | N |
| As sways the songless measure | A |
| Wherein thy wings take pleasure | A |
| Thy love may no man capture | A |
| Thy pride may no man quail | N |
| The lark knows no such rapture | A |
| Such joy no nightingale | N |
| And we whom dreams embolden | E |
| We can but creep and sing | F |
| And watch through heaven's waste hollow | G |
| The flight no sight may follow | G |
| To the utter bourne beholden | E |
| Of none that lack thy wing | F |
| And we whom dreams embolden | E |
| We can but creep and sing | F |
| Our dreams have wings that falter | A |
| Our hearts bear hopes that die | J |
| For thee no dream could better | A |
| A life no fears may fetter | A |
| A pride no care can alter | A |
| That wots not whence or why | J |
| Our dreams have wings that falter | A |
| Our hearts bear hopes that die | J |
| With joy more fierce and sweeter | A |
| Than joys we deem divine | E |
| Their lives by time untarnished | J |
| Are girt about and garnished | J |
| Who match the wave's full metre | A |
| And drink the wind's wild wine | E |
| With joy more fierce and sweeter | A |
| Than joys we deem divine | E |
| Ah well were I for ever | A |
| Wouldst thou change lives with me | C |
| And take my song's wild honey | C |
| And give me back thy sunny | C |
| Wide eyes that weary never | A |
| And wings that search the sea | C |
| Ah well were I for ever | A |
| Wouldst thou change lives with me | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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