The Sea Hold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC AD EF EG HI AJ| THE SEA is large | A |
| The sea hold on a leg of land in the Chesapeake hugs an early sunset and a last morning star over the oyster beds and the late clam boats of lonely men | B |
| Five white houses on a half mile strip of land five white dice rolled from a tube | C |
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| Not so long ago the sea was large | A |
| And to day the sea has lost nothing it keeps all | D |
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| I am a loon about the sea | E |
| I make so many sea songs I cry so many sea cries I forget so many sea songs and sea cries | F |
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| I am a loon about the sea | E |
| So are five men I had a fish fry with once in a tar paper shack trembling in a sand storm | G |
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| The sea knows more about them than they know themselves | H |
| They know only how the sea hugs and will not let go | I |
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| The sea is large | A |
| The sea must know more than any of us | J |
Carl Sandburg
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