The Grotto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFF GHIIGGH JKLMNOP QRDSSTT| The sea still plunges where as naked boys | A |
| We dared the currents and the racing tides | B |
| That stamped red weals of fury on our thighs | C |
| Yet did not know our first love was the sea | D |
| That rolled like colts between our shining knees | E |
| While under us the sands in golden curls | F |
| Coiled round our bodies like the plaits of girls | F |
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| We came oblique to passion on that shore | G |
| Identified with our blind will to danger | H |
| As when we explored the slipping walls of caves | I |
| Booming with dark more fearful than the waves | I |
| Whose silence magnified the heart's deep roar | G |
| Till senses beat that were asleep before | G |
| And in ourselves we recognized a stranger | H |
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| Or when we scaled by Frenchman's Bay the cliff | J |
| No man has dared though boys there in the night | K |
| Still prove their manhood on its hostile side | L |
| That was our climb from innocence to life | M |
| And yet if I could be there once again | N |
| My love I'd pause amazed among the gulls | O |
| Afraid of both the triumphs and the falls | P |
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| In sea and grotto where we found our hearts | Q |
| Our youth remained and all our days return | R |
| In dream and vision to the mocking sea | D |
| Where womanhood and manhood proudly stirred | S |
| Within our silence like a singing bird | S |
| And never a dawning day will break as pure | T |
| As our grave adoration immature | T |
Francis Scarfe
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