San Francisco (from The Sea) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE AA FF GG HI JJ KK LL MM NN OO OO OO PP QQ OO RRSerene indifferent of Fate | A |
Thou sittest at the Western Gate | A |
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Upon thy height so lately won | B |
Still slant the banners of the sun | B |
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Thou seest the white seas strike their tents | C |
O Warder of two continents | D |
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And scornful of the peace that flies | E |
Thy angry winds and sullen skies | E |
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Thou drawest all things small or great | A |
To thee beside the Western Gate | A |
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O lion's whelp that hidest fast | F |
In jungle growth of spire and mast | F |
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I know thy cunning and thy greed | G |
Thy hard high lust and willful deed | G |
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And all thy glory loves to tell | H |
Of specious gifts material | I |
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Drop down O Fleecy Fog and hide | J |
Her skeptic sneer and all her pride | J |
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Wrap her O Fog in gown and hood | K |
Of her Franciscan Brotherhood | K |
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Hide me her faults her sin and blame | L |
With thy gray mantle cloak her shame | L |
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So shall she cowled sit and pray | M |
Till morning bears her sins away | M |
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Then rise O Fleecy Fog and raise | N |
The glory of her coming days | N |
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Be as the cloud that flecks the seas | O |
Above her smoky argosies | O |
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When forms familiar shall give place | O |
To stranger speech and newer face | O |
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When all her throes and anxious fears | O |
Lie hushed in the repose of years | O |
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When Art shall raise and Culture lift | P |
The sensual joys and meaner thrift | P |
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And all fulfilled the vision we | Q |
Who watch and wait shall never see | Q |
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Who in the morning of her race | O |
Toiled fair or meanly in our place | O |
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But yielding to the common lot | R |
Lie unrecorded and forgot | R |
Bret Harte
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