The Speech Of Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C B A D E D C B F B C G E G E A H I J K L K| The solemn Sea of Silence lies between us | A |
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| I know thou livest and them lovest me | B |
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| And yet I wish some white ship would come sailing | C |
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| Across the ocean beating word from thee | B |
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| The dead calm awes me with its awful stillness | A |
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| No anxious doubts or fears disturb my breast | D |
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| I only ask some little wave of language | E |
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| To stir this vast infinitude of rest | D |
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| I am oppressed with this great sense of loving | C |
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| So much I give so much receive from thee | B |
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| Like subtle incense rising from a censer | F |
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| So floats the fragrance of thy love round me | B |
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| All speech is poor and written words unmeaning | C |
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| Yet such I ask blown hither by some wind | G |
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| To give relief to this too perfect knowledge | E |
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| The Silence so impresses on my mind | G |
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| How poor the love that needeth word or message | E |
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| To banish doubt or nourish tenderness | A |
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| I ask them but to temper love's convictions | H |
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| The Silence all too fully doth express | I |
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| Too deep the language which the spirit utters | J |
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| Too vast the knowledge which my soul hath stirred | K |
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| Send some white ship across the Sea of Silence | L |
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| And interrupt its utterance with a word | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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