The Sea By The Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML ABAB| I DWELL in the sea that is wild and deep | A |
| But afar in a shadow still | B |
| I can see the trees that gather and sleep | A |
| In the wood upon the hill | B |
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| The deeps are green as an emerald's face | C |
| The caves are crystal calm | D |
| But I wish the sea were a little trace | C |
| Of moisture in God's palm | D |
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| The waves are weary of hiding pearls | E |
| Are aweary of smothering gold | F |
| They would all be air that sweeps and swirls | E |
| In the branches manifold | F |
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| They are weary of laving the seaman's eyes | G |
| With their passion prayer unsaid | H |
| They are weary of sobs and the sudden sighs | G |
| And movements of the dead | H |
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| All the sea is haunted with human lips | I |
| Ashen and sere and gray | J |
| You can hear the sails of the sunken ships | I |
| Stir and shiver and sway | J |
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| In the weary solitude | K |
| If mine were the will of God the main | L |
| Should melt away in the rustling wood | M |
| Like a mist that follows the rain | L |
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| But I dwell in the sea that is wild and deep | A |
| And afar in the shadow still | B |
| I can see the trees that gather and sleep | A |
| In the wood upon the hill | B |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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