Lines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEFEGGGG HGHGGIG JKJKLMLM FNFNOPOP QRQRKSKS| I hied me to the ocean side | A |
| Its waves rolled bright and high | B |
| Upon its waters spreading wide | A |
| I gazed with beaming eye | B |
| At last at last I said is found | C |
| A charm to banish pain | D |
| Here where the sprightly billows bound | C |
| Athwart the heaving main | D |
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| The pebbly beach I wandered o'er | E |
| At morn and evening's hour | E |
| Or listening to the breakers' roar | F |
| Or wondering at their power | E |
| Beneath their din I madly sought | G |
| With ev'ry nerve bestirred | G |
| To drown for aye the demon thought | G |
| But ah he would be heard | G |
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| He found a voice my ear to reach | H |
| To pierce my aching breast | G |
| In every wave that swept the beach | H |
| With proud defiant crest | G |
| And when the moon with silver light | G |
| Smiled o'er the waters blue | I |
| It seemed to say 'There's nothing bright | G |
| O'er all this earth for you ' | - |
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| Scarce half a moon have I been here | J |
| Beside the sounding sea | K |
| In hope its echoings in my ear | J |
| Might drown out memory | K |
| Or might instil some vital life | L |
| Into this feeble frame | M |
| Long spent and wasted by the strife | L |
| Wide wrought against my name | M |
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| In vain in vain nor sea nor shore | F |
| Nor any mortal thing | N |
| Can to my cheek health's bloom restore | F |
| Or clear my life's well spring | N |
| And yet there is a sea whose waves | O |
| Will roll above us all | P |
| Within its vasty depths are graves | O |
| Beyond all mortal call | P |
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| With what an awful note of dirge | Q |
| This shoreless ocean rolls | R |
| Bearing on its tremendous surge | Q |
| The wealth of human souls | R |
| The Ocean of Eternity | K |
| O let its billows sweep | S |
| O'er one that longeth to be free | K |
| And sleep the dreamless sleep | S |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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