Songs Of Love And The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCABDD EFAEFGG A HIDDII JKLLKK MNOONN A PLQRJSTUVWJXY G ZA2ZA2 B2JB2J C2D2C2D2| I | A |
| - | |
| When first we met the Sea and I | A |
| Like one before a King | B |
| I stood in awe nor felt nor saw | C |
| The sun the winds the earth the sky | A |
| Or any other thing | B |
| God's Universe to me | D |
| Was just the Sea | D |
| - | |
| When next we met the lordly Main | E |
| Played but a courtier's part | F |
| Crowned Queen was I and earth and sky | A |
| And sun and sea were my domain | E |
| Since love was in my heart | F |
| Before beyond above | G |
| Was only Love | G |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Love built me on a little rock | H |
| A little house of pine | I |
| At first the Sea | D |
| Beat angrily | D |
| About that house of mine | I |
| That dear dear home of mine | I |
| - | |
| But when it turned to go away | J |
| Beyond the sandy track | K |
| Down o'er its wall | L |
| The house would call | L |
| Until the Sea came back | K |
| It always hurried back | K |
| - | |
| And now the two have grown so fond | M |
| Oh breathe no word of this | N |
| When clouds hang low | O |
| And east winds blow | O |
| They meet and kiss and kiss | N |
| At night I hear them kiss | N |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| No man can understand the Sea until | P |
| He knows all passions of the senses all | L |
| The great emotions of the heart and each | Q |
| Exalted aspiration of the soul | R |
| Then may he sit beside the sea and say | J |
| 'I too have flung myself against the rocks | S |
| And kissed their flinty brows with no return | T |
| And fallen spent upon unfeeling sands | U |
| I too have gone forth yearning to far shores | V |
| Seeking that something which would bring content | W |
| And finding only what I took away | J |
| And I have looked up through the veil of skies | X |
| When all the world was still and understood | Y |
| That I am one with Nature and with God ' | - |
| - | |
| IV | G |
| - | |
| The Dawn was flying from the Night | Z |
| Swift as the wind she sped | A2 |
| Her hair was like a fleece of light | Z |
| Her cheeks were warm and red | A2 |
| - | |
| All passion pale the Night pursued | B2 |
| She fled away away | J |
| And in her garments rainbow hued | B2 |
| She gained the peak of day | J |
| - | |
| And then all shaken with alarms | C2 |
| She leaped down from its crest | D2 |
| Into the Sea's uplifted arms | C2 |
| And swooned upon his breast | D2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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