The Scallop Shell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH| A scallop shell loosed by the lifting tide | A |
| Had left a friendly shore the seas to brave | B |
| Its lips of pink and snowy hollow shone | C |
| Pure in the sun a pearl upon the wave | B |
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| It gleamed and passed you burdened it with love | D |
| With sweet long futures new and dreamy days | E |
| And named for me because I held your hopes | F |
| I bid you hush not meriting your praise | E |
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| I pointed where your vessel came to shore | G |
| Wrecked where the tiny breakers rose and fell | H |
| And bid your voyagers not put to sea | I |
| So fail a craft as this poor scallop shell | H |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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