The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMKKN OPQ RSTUMKKPEP V| You you are all unloving loveless you | A |
| Restless and lonely shaken by your own moods | B |
| You are celibate and single scorning a comrade even | C |
| Threshing your own passions with no woman for the threshing floor | D |
| Finishing your dreams for your own sake only | E |
| Playing your great game around the world alone | F |
| Without playmate or helpmate having no one to cherish | G |
| No one to comfort and refusing any comforter | H |
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| Not like the earth the spouse all full of increase | I |
| Moiled over with the rearing of her many mouthed young | J |
| You are single you are fruitless phosphorescent cold and callous | K |
| Naked of worship of love or of adornment | L |
| Scorning the panacea even of labour | M |
| Sworn to a high and splendid purposelessness | K |
| Of brooding and delighting in the secret of life's goings | K |
| Sea only you are free sophisticated | N |
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| You who toil not you who spin not | O |
| Surely but for you and your like toiling | P |
| Were not worth while nor spinning worth the effort | Q |
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| You who take the moon as in a sieve and sift | R |
| Her flake by flake and spread her meaning out | S |
| You who roll the stars like jewels in your palm | T |
| So that they seem to utter themselves aloud | U |
| You who steep from out the days their colour | M |
| Reveal the universal tint that dyes | K |
| Their web who shadow the sun's great gestures and expressions | K |
| So that he seems a stranger in his passing | P |
| Who voice the dumb night fittingly | E |
| Sea you shadow of all things now mock us to death with your shadowing | P |
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| BOURNEMOUTH | V |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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