Through Time And Bitter Distance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDED FGFG HIHI JKJKUnknown 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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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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