A Seaside Idyl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQFRR KSTRUVRAWXPOYFZA2B2C 2D2E2F2ROUG2RRH2I2J2 ORK2L2M2N2O2RP2Q2RL2 L2R2L2S2RT2RT2RU2RXV 2W2X2Y2Z2| I wandered to the shore nor knew I then | A |
| What my desire whether for wild lament | B |
| Or sweet regret to fill the idle pause | C |
| Of twilight melancholy in my house | D |
| And watch the flowing tide the passing sails | E |
| Or to implore the air and sea and sky | F |
| For that eternal passion in their power | G |
| Which souls like mine who ponder on their fate | H |
| May feel and be as they gods to themselves | I |
| Thither I went whatever was my mood | J |
| The sands the rocks and beds of bending sedge | K |
| I saw alone Between the east and west | L |
| Along the beach no creature moved besides | M |
| High on the eastern point a lighthouse shone | N |
| Steered by its lamp a ship stood out to sea | O |
| And vanished from its rays towards the deep | P |
| While in the west above a wooded isle | Q |
| An island cloud hung in the emerald sky | F |
| Hiding pale Venus in its sombre shade | R |
| I wandered up and down the sands I loitered | R |
| Among the rocks and trampled through the sedge | K |
| But I grew weary of the stocks and stones | S |
| I will go hence I thought the Elements | T |
| Have lost their charm my soul is dead to night | R |
| Oh passive creeping Sea and stagnant Air | U |
| Farewell Dull sands and rocks and sedge farewell | V |
| Homeward I turned my face but stayed my feet | R |
| Should I go back but to revive again | A |
| The ancient pain Hark suddenly there came | W |
| From over sea a sound like that of speech | X |
| And suddenly I felt my pulses leap | P |
| As though some Presence were approaching me | O |
| Loud as the voice of Ocean's dark haired king | Y |
| A breeze came down the sea the sea rose high | F |
| The surging waves sang round me this their song | Z |
| Oh yet your love will triumph He shall come | A2 |
| In love's wild tumult he shall come once more | B2 |
| By tracks of ocean or by paths of earth | C2 |
| The wanderer will reach you and remain | D2 |
| The breakers dashed among the rocks and they | E2 |
| Seemed full of life the foam dissolved the sands | F2 |
| And the sedge trembled in the swelling tide | R |
| Was this a promise of the vaunting Sea | O |
| Or the illusion of a last despair | U |
| Either or both still homeward I must go | G2 |
| And that way turned mine eyes and thought they met | R |
| A picture surely so or I was mad | R |
| The crimson harvest moon was rising full | H2 |
| Above my roof and glimmered on my walls | I2 |
| Within the doorway stood a man I knew | J2 |
| No picture this I saw approaching me | O |
| Him I had hoped for grieved for and despaired | R |
| My ship is wrecked he cried and I return | K2 |
| Never to leave my love You are my love | L2 |
| I too am wrecked I sighed by lonely years | M2 |
| Returning you but find another wreck | N2 |
| He bent his face to search my own and spake | O2 |
| What I have traversed sea and land to find | R |
| I find For liberty I fought and life | P2 |
| On savage shores and wastes of unknown seas | Q2 |
| While waiting for this hour Oh think you not | R |
| Immortal love mates with immortal love | L2 |
| Always And now at last we know this love | L2 |
| My soul was filling with a mighty joy | R2 |
| I could not show yet must I show my love | L2 |
| From you whose will divided broke our hearts | S2 |
| I now demand a different kiss than that | R |
| Which then you said should be our parting kiss | T2 |
| Given I vow the past shall be forgot | R |
| The kiss and we are one Give me the kiss | T2 |
| Like the dark rocks upon the sands he stood | R |
| When on his breast I fell and kissed his lips | U2 |
| All the wild clangor of the sea was hushed | R |
| The rapid silver waves ran each to each | X |
| Lapsed in the deep with joyous murmured sighs | V2 |
| Years of repentance mine forgiveness his | W2 |
| To tell Happy we paced the tranquil shores | X2 |
| Till between sea and sky we saw the sun | Y2 |
| And all our wiser loving days began | Z2 |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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