Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A Sea-side Walk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDD EFAAFGG HHIIHJJ KKLLKMM NOPPOQQ

We walked beside the seaA
After a day which perished silentlyA
Of its own glory like the Princess weirdB
Who combating the Genius scorched and searedB
Uttered with burning breath 'Ho victory 'C
And sank adown an heap of ashes paleD
So runs the Arab taleD
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The sky above us showedE
An universal and unmoving cloudF
On which the cliffs permitted us to seeA
Only the outline of their majestyA
As master minds when gazed at by the crowdF
And shining with a gloom the water greyG
Swang in its moon taught wayG
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Nor moon nor stars were outH
They did not dare to tread so soon aboutH
Though trembling in the footsteps of the sunI
The light was neither night's nor day's but oneI
Which life like had a beauty in its doubtH
And Silence's impassioned breathings roundJ
Seemed wandering into soundJ
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O solemn beating heartK
Of nature I have knowledge that thou artK
Bound unto man's by cords he cannot severL
And what time they are slackened by him everL
So to attest his own supernal partK
Still runneth thy vibration fast and strongM
The slackened cord alongM
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For though we never spokeN
Of the grey water anal the shaded rockO
Dark wave and stone unconsciously were fusedP
Into the plaintive speaking that we usedP
Of absent friends and memories unforsookO
And had we seen each other's face we hadQ
Seen haply each was sadQ

Elizabeth Barrett Browning



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