Far Rockaway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB BDDD EFGF HGDG IBBB DJBJthe cure of souls Henry James | A |
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The radiant soda of the seashore fashions | B |
Fun foam and freedom The sea laves | B |
The Shaven sand And the light sways forward | C |
On self destroying waves | B |
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The rigor of the weekday is cast aside with shoes | B |
With business suits and traffic's motion | D |
The lolling man lies with the passionate sun | D |
Or is drunken in the ocean | D |
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A socialist health take should of the adult | E |
He is stripped of his class in the bathing suit | F |
He returns to the children digging at summer | G |
A melon like fruit | F |
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O glittering and rocking and bursting and blue | H |
Eternities of sea and sky shadow no pleasure | G |
Time unheard moves and the heart of man is eaten | D |
Consummately at leisure | G |
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The novelist tangential on the boardwalk overhead | I |
Seeks his cure of souls in his own anxious gaze | B |
Here he says With whom he asks This he questions | B |
What tedium what blaze | B |
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What satisfaction fruit What transit heaven | D |
Criminal justified arrived at what June | J |
That nervous conscience amid the concessions | B |
Is haunting haunted moon | J |
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