Pasa Thalassa Thalassa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDA EFDA AGHA IJKL AMBN OPQR STBA BUBV| The sea is everywhere the sea | A |
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| Gone faded out of the story the sea faring friend I remember | B |
| Gone for a decade they say never a word or a sign | C |
| Gone with his hard red face that only his laughter could wrinkle | D |
| Down where men go to be still by the old way of the sea | A |
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| Never again will he come with rings in his ears like a pirate | E |
| Back to be living and seen here with his roses and vines | F |
| Here where the tenants are shadows and echoes of years uneventful | D |
| Memory meets the event told from afar by the sea | A |
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| Smoke that floated and rolled in the twilight away from the chimney | A |
| Floats and rolls no more Wheeling and falling instead | G |
| Down with a twittering flash go the smooth and inscrutable swallows | H |
| Down to the place made theirs by the cold work of the sea | A |
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| Roses have had their day and the dusk is on yarrow and wormwood | I |
| Dusk that is over the grass drenched with memorial dew | J |
| Trellises lie like bones in a ruin that once was a garden | K |
| Swallows have lingered and ceased shadows and echoes are all | L |
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| Where is he lying to night as I turn away down to the valley | A |
| Down where the lamps of men tell me the streets are alive | M |
| Where shall I ask and of whom in the town or on land or on water | B |
| News of a time and a place buried alike and with him | N |
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| Few now remain who may care nor may they be wiser for caring | O |
| Where or what manner the doom whether by day or by night | P |
| Whether in Indian deeps or on flood laden fields of Atlantis | Q |
| Or by the roaring Horn shrouded in silence he lies | R |
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| Few now remain who return by the weed weary path to his cottage | S |
| Drawn by the scene as it was met by the chill and the change | T |
| Few are alive who report and few are alive who remember | B |
| More of him now than a name carved somewhere on the sea | A |
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| Where is he lying I ask and the lights in the valley are nearer | B |
| Down to the streets I go down to the murmur of men | U |
| Down to the roar of the sea in a ship may be well for another | B |
| Down where he lies to night silent and under the storms | V |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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