On Calais Sands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABDBBCBC EBAB CBC BCBC| On Calais Sands the grey began | A |
| Then rosy red above the grey | B |
| The morn with many a scarlet van | A |
| Leap'd and the world was glad with May | B |
| The little waves along the bay | B |
| Broke white upon the shelving strands | C |
| The sea mews flitted white as they | B |
| On Calais Sands | C |
| - | |
| On Calais Sands must man with man | A |
| Wash honour clean in blood to day | B |
| On spaces wet from waters wan | D |
| How white the flashing rapiers play | B |
| Parry riposte and lunge The fray | B |
| Shifts for a while then mournful stands | C |
| The Victor life ebbs fast away | B |
| On Calais Sands | C |
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| On Calais Sands a little space | E |
| Of silence then the plash and spray | B |
| The sound of eager waves that ran | A |
| To kiss the perfumed locks astray | B |
| To touch these lips that ne'er said 'Nay ' | - |
| To dally with the helpless hands | C |
| Till the deep sea in silence lay | B |
| On Calais Sands | C |
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| Between the lilac and the may | B |
| She waits her love from alien lands | C |
| Her love is colder than the clay | B |
| On Calais Sands | C |
Andrew Lang
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