Imprisoned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM KDKD| LIGHTLY she lifts the large pure luminous shell | A |
| Poises it in her strong and shapely hand | B |
| Listen she says it has a tale to tell | A |
| Spoken in language you may understand | B |
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| Smiling she holds it at my dreaming ear | C |
| The old delicious murmur of the sea | D |
| Steals like enchantment through me and I hear | C |
| Voices like echoes of eternity | D |
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| She stirs it softly Lo another speech | E |
| In one of its dim chambers shut from sight | F |
| Is sealed the water that has kissed the beach | E |
| Where the far Indian Ocean leaps in light | F |
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| Those laughing ripples hidden evermore | G |
| In utter darkness plaintively repeat | H |
| Their lapsing on the glowing tropic shore | G |
| In melancholy whispers low and sweet | H |
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| O prisoned wave that may not see the sun | I |
| O voice that never may he comforted | J |
| You cannot break the web that fate has spun | I |
| Out of your world are light and gladness fled | K |
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| The red dawn nevermore shall tremble far | L |
| Across the leagues of radiant brine to you | M |
| You shall not sing to greet the evening star | L |
| Nor dance exulting under heaven s clear blue | M |
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| Inexorably woven is the weft | K |
| That shrouds from you all joy but memory | D |
| Only this tender low lament is left | K |
| Of all the sumptuous splendor of the sea | D |
Celia Thaxter
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