Sitting On The Shore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACC DEEDDFG HIIHHJJKLLKKMM| THE tide has ebbed away | A |
| No more wild dashings 'gainst the adamant rocks | B |
| Nor swayings amidst sea weed false that mocks | B |
| The hues of gardens gay | A |
| No laugh of little wavelets at their play | A |
| No lucid pools reflecting heaven's clear brow | C |
| Both storm and calm alike are ended now | C |
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| The rocks sit gray and lone | D |
| The shifting sand is spread so smooth and dry | E |
| That not a tide might ever have swept by | E |
| Stirring it with rude moan | D |
| Only some weedy fragments idly thrown | D |
| To rot beneath the sky tell what has been | F |
| But Desolation's self has grown serene | G |
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| Afar the mountains rise | H |
| And the broad estuary widens out | I |
| All sunshine wheeling round and round about | I |
| Seaward a white bird flies | H |
| A bird Nay seems it rather in these eyes | H |
| A spirit o'er Eternity's dim sea | J |
| Calling 'Come thou where all we glad souls be | J |
| O life O silent shore | K |
| Where we sit patient O great sea beyond | L |
| To which we turn with solemn hope and fond | L |
| But sorrowful no more | K |
| A little while and then we too shall soar | K |
| Like white winged sea birds into the Infinite Deep | M |
| Till then Thou Father wilt our spirits keep | M |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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