Sea Cycle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJJKKLLMM| Below the duff before the granite stair | A |
| The foam crests curl and feather in blue air | A |
| Numberless as the helmet plumes of hosts | B |
| Resurgent from millenium foundered coasts | B |
| The billows wreathed with sea weed and sea flower | C |
| Mount landward from the mermaid's plundered bower | C |
| And shells and pebbles torn from sunken strands | D |
| Shift idly on the rainbow haunted sands | D |
| The slow tide stirs amid the nether main | E |
| The sluggish treasure galleons of Spain | E |
| And surely if we wait and watch awhile | F |
| The spars of galleys cast on the Sirens' isle | F |
| Or broken on Saturnia's iron keys | G |
| Will swirl before us from the cyclic seas | G |
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| Dear shall I pray the gulf's great deity | H |
| Nodens to bring once more for you and me | H |
| Some love relinquished hour we could not save | I |
| That westered all too swiftly to the wave | I |
| Ebbing between the cypress and the grass | J |
| Though prayer be vain this thing shall come to pass | J |
| For still the solemn cycles wane and flow | K |
| Bringing again the lost and long ago | K |
| All that the sea has taken the sea restores | L |
| Somehow somewhere on ocean winnowed shores | L |
| Again we two shall wander and shall not stay | M |
| Finding the golden wrack of yesterday | M |
Clark Ashton Smith
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