The City And The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCDC A EFEFDCDC| I | A |
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| To none the city bends a servile knee | B |
| Purse proud and scornful on her heights she stands | C |
| And at her feet the great white moaning sea | B |
| Shoulders incessantly the grey gold sands | C |
| One the Almighty's child since time began | D |
| And one the might of Mammon born of clods | C |
| For all the city is the work of man | D |
| But all the sea is God's | C |
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| II | A |
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| And she between the ocean and the town | E |
| Lies cursed of one and by the other blest | F |
| Her staring eyes her long drenched hair her gown | E |
| Sea laved and soiled and dank above her breast | F |
| She image of her God since life began | D |
| She but the child of Mammon born of clods | C |
| Her broken body spoiled and spurned of man | D |
| But her sweet soul is God's | C |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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