The Mighty Ocean Rolls And Raves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHIJ KKLL MMBC NNOO PPQQ RRLL| The mighty ocean rolls and raves | A |
| To part us with its angry waves | A |
| But arch on arch from shore to shore | B |
| In a vast fabric reaching o'er | C |
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| With careful labours daily wrought | D |
| By steady hope and tender thought | D |
| The wide and weltering waste above | E |
| Our hearts have bridged it with their love | E |
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| There fond anticipations fly | F |
| To rear the growing structure high | F |
| Dear memories upon either side | G |
| Combine to make it large and wide | G |
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| There happy fancies day by day | H |
| New courses sedulously lay | H |
| There soft solicitudes sweet fears | I |
| And doubts accumulate and tears | J |
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| While the pure purpose of the soul | K |
| To form of many parts a whole | K |
| To make them strong and hold them true | L |
| From end to end is carried through | L |
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| Then when the waters war between | M |
| Upon the masonry unseen | M |
| Secure and swift from shore to shore | B |
| With silent footfall travelling o'er | C |
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| Our sundered spirits come and go | N |
| Hither and thither to and fro | N |
| Pass and repass now linger near | O |
| Now part anew to reappear | O |
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| With motions of a glad surprise | P |
| We meet each other's wondering eyes | P |
| At work at play when people talk | Q |
| And when we sleep and when we walk | Q |
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| Each dawning day my eyelids see | R |
| You come methinks across to me | R |
| And I at every hour anew | L |
| Could dream I travelled o'er to you | L |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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