The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC AADDEE FFGGDD HHIIAAJ JAKLL MMNNAA| THE SEA the sea the open sea | A |
| The blue the fresh the ever free | A |
| Without a mark without a bound | B |
| It runneth the earth s wide regions round | B |
| It plays with the clouds it mocks the skies | C |
| Or like a cradled creature lies | C |
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| I m on the sea I m on the sea | A |
| I am where I would ever be | A |
| With the blue above and the blue below | D |
| And silence wheresoe er I go | D |
| If a storm should come and awake the deep | E |
| What matter I shall ride and sleep | E |
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| I love O how I love to ride | F |
| On the fierce foaming bursting tide | F |
| When every mad wave drowns the moon | G |
| Or whistles aloft his tempest tune | G |
| And tells how goeth the world below | D |
| And why the sou west blasts do blow | D |
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| I never was on the dull tame shore | H |
| But I lov d the great sea more and more | H |
| And backwards flew to her billowy breast | I |
| Like a bird that seeketh its mother s nest | I |
| And a mother she was and is to me | A |
| For I was born on the open sea | A |
| The waves were white and red the morn | J |
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| In the noisy hour when I was born | J |
| And the whale it whistled the porpoise roll d | A |
| And the dolphins bared their backs of gold | K |
| And never was heard such an outcry wild | L |
| As welcom d to life the ocean child | L |
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| I ve liv d since then in calm and strife | M |
| Full fifty summers a sailor s life | M |
| With wealth to spend and a power to range | N |
| But never have sought nor sighed for change | N |
| And Death whenever he comes to me | A |
| Shall come on the wild unbounded sea | A |
Barry Cornwall
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