At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIFJF KLKMNF MODPKF QRESTF UVWEXF| As a brave man faces the foe | A |
| Alone against hundreds and sees Death grin in his teeth | B |
| But shutting his lips fights on to the end | C |
| Without speech without hope without flinching | D |
| So silently grimly the steamer | E |
| Lurches ahead through the night | F |
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| A beacon light far off | G |
| Twinkling across the waves like a star | H |
| But no star in the dark overhead | I |
| The splash of waters at the prow and the evil light | F |
| Of the death fires flitting like will o' the wisps beneath And beyond | J |
| Silence and night | F |
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| I sit by the taffrail | K |
| Alone in the dark and the blown cold mist and the spray | L |
| Feeling myself swept on irresistibly | K |
| Sunk in the night and the sea and made one with their footfall less onrush | M |
| Letting myself be borne like a spar adrift | N |
| Helplessly into the night | F |
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| Without fear without wish | M |
| Insensate save of a dull crushed ache in my heart | O |
| Careless whither the steamer is going | D |
| Conscious only as in a dream of the wet and the dark | P |
| And of a form that looms and fades indistinctly | K |
| Everywhere out of the night | F |
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| O love how came I here | Q |
| Shall I wake at thy side and smile at my dream | R |
| The dream that grips me so hard that I cannot wake nor stir | E |
| O love O my own love found but to be lost | S |
| My soul sends over the waters a wild inarticulate cry | T |
| Like a gull's scream heard in the night | F |
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| The mist creeps closer The beacon | U |
| Vanishes astern The sea's monotonous noises | V |
| Lapse through the drizzle with a listless subsiding cadence | W |
| And thou O love and the sea throb on in my brain together | E |
| While the steamer plunges along | X |
| Butting its way through the night | F |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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