Through Time And Bitter Distance"[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDED FGFG HIHI JKJK| Unknown to you I walk the cheerless shore | A |
| The cutting blast the hurl of biting brine | B |
| May freeze and still and bind the waves at war | A |
| Ere you will ever know O Heart of mine | B |
| That I have sought reflected in the blue | C |
| Of these sea depths some shadow of your eyes | D |
| Have hoped the laughing waves would sing of you | C |
| But this is all my starving sight descries | D |
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| I | - |
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| Far out at sea a sail | E |
| Bends to the freshening breeze | D |
| Yields to the rising gale | E |
| That sweeps the seas | D |
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| II | - |
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| Yields as a bird wind tossed | F |
| To saltish waves that fling | G |
| Their spray whose rime and frost | F |
| Like crystals cling | G |
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| III | - |
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| To canvas mast and spar | H |
| Till gleaming like a gem | I |
| She sinks beyond the far | H |
| Horizon's hem | I |
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| IV | - |
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| Lost to my longing sight | J |
| And nothing left to me | K |
| Save an oncoming night | J |
| An empty sea | K |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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