Exiled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE EBEB GEHE GIJJ JJGJ GEEE BKCL BMNO| Searching my heart for its true sorrow | A |
| This is the thing I find to be | B |
| That I am weary of words and people | C |
| Sick of the city wanting the sea | B |
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| Wanting the sticky salty sweetness | D |
| Of the strong wind and shattered spray | E |
| Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound | F |
| Of the big surf that breaks all day | E |
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| Always before about my dooryard | E |
| Marking the reach of the winter sea | B |
| Rooted in sand and dragging drift wood | E |
| Straggled the purple wild sweet pea | B |
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| Always I climbed the wave at morning | G |
| Shook the sand from my shoes at night | E |
| That now am caught beneath great buildings | H |
| Stricken with noise confused with light | E |
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| If I could hear the green piles groaning | G |
| Under the windy wooden piers | I |
| See once again the bobbing barrels | J |
| And the black sticks that fence the weirs | J |
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| If I could see the weedy mussels | J |
| Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls | J |
| Hear once again the hungry crying | G |
| Overhead of the wheeling gulls | J |
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| Feel once again the shanty straining | G |
| Under the turning of the tide | E |
| Fear once again the rising freshet | E |
| Dread the bell in the fog outside | E |
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| I should be happy that was happy | B |
| All day long on the coast of Maine | K |
| I have a need to hold and handle | C |
| Shells and anchors and ships again | L |
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| I should be happy that am happy | B |
| Never at all since I came here | M |
| I am too long away from water | N |
| I have a need of water near | O |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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