The Ocean Strand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCEFEFEGGFGHIH IIFJFJEKKJ| O leave the labouring roadways of the town | A |
| The shifting faces and the changeful hue | B |
| Of markets and broad echoing streets that drown | A |
| The heart's own silent music Though they too | B |
| Sing in their proper rhythm and still delight | C |
| The friendly ear that loves warm human kind | D |
| Yet it is good to leave them all behind | D |
| Now when from lily dawn to purple night | C |
| Summer is queen | E |
| Summer is queen in all the happy land | F |
| Far far away among the valleys green | E |
| Let us go forth and wander hand in hand | F |
| Beyond those solemn hills that we have seen | E |
| So often welcome home the falling sun | G |
| Into their cloudy peaks when day was done | G |
| Beyond them till we find the ocean strand | F |
| And hear the great waves run | G |
| With the waste song whose melodies I'd follow | H |
| And weary not for many a summer day | I |
| Born of the vaulted breakers arching hollow | H |
| Before they flash and scatter into spray | I |
| On if we should be weary of their play | I |
| Then I would lead you further into land | F |
| Where with their ragged walls the stately rocks | J |
| Shunt in smooth courts and paved with quiet sand | F |
| To silence dedicate The sea god's flocks | J |
| Have rested here and mortal eyes have seen | E |
| By great adventure at the dead of noon | K |
| A lonely nereid drowsing half a swoon | K |
| Buried beneath her dark and dripping locks | J |
C. S. Lewis
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