A Coast View Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVW| High mid the shelves of a grey cliff that yet | A |
| Riseth in Babylonian mass above | B |
| In a benched cleft as in the mouldered chair | C |
| Of grey beard Time himself I sit alone | D |
| And gaze with a keen wondering happiness | E |
| Out o er the sea Unto the circling bend | F |
| That verges Heaven a vast luminous plain | G |
| It stretches changeful as a lover s dream | H |
| Into great spaces mapped by light and shade | I |
| In constant interchange either neath clouds | J |
| The billows darken or they shimmer bright | K |
| In sunny scopes of measureless expanse | L |
| Tis Ocean dreamless of a stormy hour | M |
| Calm or but gently heaving yet O God | N |
| What a blind fate like mightiness lies coiled | O |
| In slumber under that wide shining face | P |
| While o er the watery gleam there where its edge | Q |
| Banks the dim vacancy the topmost sails | R |
| Of some tall ship whose hull is yet unseen | S |
| Hang as if clinging to a cloud that still | T |
| Comes rising with them from the void beyond | U |
| Like to a heavenly net drawn from the deep | V |
| And carried upward by ethereal hands | W |
Charles Harpur
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