The Dark, Blue Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBDD EFEFFGFGG HIHIIJIJJ KLMLLBLNO PJPJJQJQQ RSRRRGRGG TPTPPUPUV| There is a pleasure in the pathless woods | A |
| There is a rapture on the lonely shore | B |
| There is society where none intrudes | C |
| By the deep sea and music in its roar | B |
| I love not man the less but nature more | B |
| From these our interviews in which I steal | D |
| From all I may be or have been before | B |
| To mingle with the universe and feel | D |
| What I can ne'er express yet cannot all conceal | D |
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| Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean roll | E |
| Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain | F |
| Man marks the earth with ruin his control | E |
| Stops with the shore upon the watery plain | F |
| The wrecks are all thy deed nor doth remain | F |
| A shadow of man's ravage save his own | G |
| When for a moment like a drop of rain | F |
| He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan | G |
| Without a grave unknell'd uncoffin'd and unknown | G |
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| His steps are not upon thy paths thy fields | H |
| Are not a spoil for him thou dost arise | I |
| And shake him from thee the vile strength he wields | H |
| For earth's destruction thou dost all despise | I |
| Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies | I |
| And send'st him shivering in thy playful spray | J |
| And howling to his gods where haply lies | I |
| His petty hope in some near port or bay | J |
| And dashest him again to earth there let him lay | J |
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| The armaments which thunderstrike the walls | K |
| Of rock built cities bidding nations quake | L |
| And monarchs tremble in their capitals | M |
| The oak leviathans whose huge ribs make | L |
| Their clay creator the vain title take | L |
| Of lord of thee and arbiter of war | B |
| These are thy toys and as the snowy flake | L |
| They melt into thy yeast of waves which mar | N |
| Alike the armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar | O |
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| Thy shores are empires changed in all save thee | P |
| Assyria Greece Rome Carthage what are they | J |
| Thy waters washed them power while they were free | P |
| And many a tyrant since their shores obey | J |
| The stranger slave or savage their decay | J |
| Has dried up realms to deserts not so thou | Q |
| Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play | J |
| Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow | Q |
| Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now | Q |
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| Thou glorious mirror where the Almighty's form | R |
| Glasses itself in tempests in all time | S |
| Calm or convulsed in breeze or gale or storm | R |
| Icing the pole or in the torrid clime | R |
| Dark heaving boundless endless and sublime | R |
| The image of eternity the throne | G |
| Of the invisible even from out thy slime | R |
| The monsters of the deep are made each zone | G |
| Obeys thee thou goest forth dread fathomless alone | G |
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| And I have loved thee ocean And my joy | T |
| Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be | P |
| Borne like thy bubbles onward from a boy | T |
| I wanton'd with thy breakers they to me | P |
| Were a delight and if the freshening sea | P |
| Made them a terror 'twas a pleasing fear | U |
| For I was as it were a child of thee | P |
| And trusted to thy billows far and near | U |
| And laid my hand upon thy mane as I do here | V |
George Gordon Byron
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