The Depths Of The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA ACCAACCABBDEED AFFAAFFACCGDDG| FOR A PICTURE BY E BURNE JONES | A |
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| I | - |
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| Habes tota quod mente petisti | B |
| Infelix | A |
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| IN deep vague spaces of the lonely sea | A |
| She deemed her soulless life was almost fair | C |
| Yet ever dreamed that in the upper air | C |
| Lay happiness supreme in mystery | A |
| Then saw him out of reach as you I see | A |
| Worshipped his strength the brown breast broad and bare | C |
| The arms that bent the oar and grew aware | C |
| Of what life means and why it is good to be | A |
| And yearned for him with all her body sweet | B |
| Her lithe cold arms and chill wet bosom's beat | B |
| Vowed him her beauty's unillumined shrine | D |
| So I seeing you above me turn and tire | E |
| Sick with an empty ache of long desire | E |
| To drag you down to hold you make you mine | D |
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| II | - |
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| Attained at last the lifelong longing's prize | A |
| Raped from the world of air where warm loves glow | F |
| She bears him through her water world below | F |
| Yet in those strange glad fair mysterious eyes | A |
| The shadow of the after sorrow lies | A |
| And of the coming hour when she shall know | F |
| What she has lost in having gained him so | F |
| And whether death life's longing satisfies | A |
| She shall find out the meaning of despair | C |
| And know the anguish of a granted prayer | C |
| And how all ended all is yet undone | G |
| So I I long for what far off you shine | D |
| Not what you must be ere you could be mine | D |
| That which would crown despair if it were won | G |
Edith Nesbit
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