Victor Hugo: L'archipel De La Manche Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBAACABDD| Sea and land are fairer now nor aught is all the same | A |
| Since a mightier hand than Time's hath woven their votive wreath | B |
| Rocks as swords half drawn from out the smooth wave's jewelled sheath | B |
| Fields whose flowers a tongue divine hath numbered name by name | A |
| Shores whereby the midnight or the noon clothed round with flame | A |
| Hears the clamour jar and grind which utters from beneath | B |
| Cries of hungering waves like beasts fast bound that gnash their teeth | B |
| All of these the sun that lights them lights not like his fame | A |
| None of these is but the thing it was before he came | A |
| Where the darkling overfalls like dens of torment seethe | C |
| High on tameless moorlands down in meadows bland and tame | A |
| Where the garden hides and where the wind uproots the heath | B |
| Glory now henceforth for ever while the world shall be | D |
| Shines a star that keeps not time with change on earth and sea | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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