With The Tide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDIHJKLMNEONP QRMOSTU CVWXYZA2FB2C2D2E2MF2 G2D2H2 I2HJ2CK2L2M2N2O2CP2Q 2M2R2Q2Somewhere I read in an old book whose name | A |
Is gone from me I read that when the days | B |
Of a man are counted and his business done | C |
There comes up the shore at evening with the tide | D |
To the place where he sits a boat | E |
And in the boat from the place where he sits he sees | F |
Dim in the dusk dim and yet so familiar | G |
The faces of his friends long dead and knows | H |
They come for him brought in upon the tide | D |
To take him where men go at set of day | I |
Then rising with his hands in theirs he goes | H |
Between them his last steps that are the first | J |
Of the new life and with the ebb they pass | K |
Their shaken sail grown small upon the moon | L |
Often I thought of this and pictured me | M |
How many a man who lives with throngs about him | N |
Yet straining through the twilight for that boat | E |
Shall scarce make out one figure in the stern | O |
And that so faint its features shall perplex him | N |
With doubtful memories and his heart hang back | P |
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But others rising as they see the sail | Q |
Increase upon the sunset hasten down | R |
Hands out and eyes elated for they see | M |
Head over head crowding from bow to stern | O |
Repeopling their long loneliness with smiles | S |
The faces of their friends and such go forth | T |
Content upon the ebb tide with safe hearts | U |
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But never to worker summoned when his day was done | C |
Did mounting tide bring in such freight of friends | V |
As stole to you up the white wintry shingle | W |
That night while they that watched you thought you slept | X |
Softly they came and beached the boat and gathered | Y |
In the still cove under the icy stars | Z |
Your last born and the dear loves of your heart | A2 |
And all men that have loved right more than ease | F |
And honor above honors all who gave | B2 |
Free handed of their best for other men | C2 |
And thought their giving taking they who knew | D2 |
Man's natural state is effort up and up | E2 |
All these were there so great a company | M |
Perchance you marvelled wondering what great ship | F2 |
Had brought that throng unnumbered to the cove | G2 |
Where the boys used to beach their light canoe | D2 |
After old happy picnics | H2 |
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But these your friends and children to whose hands | I2 |
Committed in the silent night you rose | H |
And took your last faint steps | J2 |
These led you down O great American | C |
Down to the Winter night and the white beach | K2 |
And there you saw that the huge hull that waited | L2 |
Was not as are the boats of the other dead | M2 |
Frail craft for a brief passage no for this | N2 |
Was first of a long line of towering transports | O2 |
Storm worn and ocean weary every one | C |
The ships you launched the ships you manned the ships | P2 |
That now returning from their sacred quest | Q2 |
With the thrice sacred burden of their dead | M2 |
Lay waiting there to take you forth with them | R2 |
Out with the ebb tide on some farther quest | Q2 |
Edith Wharton
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