At The Seaside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACDE FGGG HGGG IDJD KLML GNGN GDOD GDDD GDPD QRDR GSGT| O SOLITARY shining sea | A |
| That ripples in the sun | B |
| O gray and melancholy sea | A |
| O'er which the shadows run | B |
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| O many voiced and angry sea | A |
| Breaking with moan and strain | C |
| I like a humble chastened child | D |
| Come back to thee again | E |
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| And build child castles and dig moats | F |
| Upon the quiet sands | G |
| And twist the cliff convolvulus | G |
| Once more round idle hands | G |
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| And look across that ocean line | H |
| As o'er life's summer sea | G |
| Where many a hope went sailing once | G |
| Full set with canvas free | G |
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| Strange strange to think how some of them | I |
| Their silver sails have furled | D |
| And some have whitely glided down | J |
| Into the under world | D |
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| And some dismasted tossed and torn | K |
| Put back in port once more | L |
| Thankful to ride with freight still safe | M |
| At anchor near the shore | L |
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| Stranger it is to lie at ease | G |
| As now with thoughts that fly | N |
| More light and wandering than sea birds | G |
| Between the waves and sky | N |
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| To play child's play with shells and weeds | G |
| And view the ocean grand | D |
| Sunk to one wave that may submerge | O |
| A baby house of sand | D |
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| And not once look or look by chance | G |
| With old dreams quite supprest | D |
| Across that mystic wild sea world | D |
| Of infinite unrest | D |
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| O ever solitary sea | G |
| Of which we all have found | D |
| Somewhat to dream or say the type | P |
| Of things without a bound | D |
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| Love long as life and strong as death | Q |
| Faith humble as sublime | R |
| Eternity whose large depths hold | D |
| The wrecks of this small Time | R |
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| Unchanging everlasting sea | G |
| To spirits soothed and calm | S |
| Thy restless moan of other years | G |
| Becomes an endless psalm | T |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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