The Salt Sea-wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FAFA| When Venus mother and maker of blisses | A |
| Rose out of the billows large limbed and fair | B |
| She stood on the sands and blew sweet kisses | A |
| To the salt sea wind as she dried her hair | B |
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| And the salt sea wind was the first to caress her | C |
| To praise her beauty and call her sweet | D |
| The first of the whole wide world to possess her | C |
| She that creature of light and heat | D |
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| Though the sea is old with its sorrows and angers | A |
| And the world has forgotten why love was born | E |
| Yet the salt sea wind is full of the languors | A |
| That Venus taught on her natal morn | E |
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| And now whoever dwells there by the ocean | F |
| And feels the wind on his hair and face | A |
| Is stirred by a subtle and keen emotion | F |
| The lingering spell of that first embrace | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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