Breakers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEEBFFCFGDG HHEEII HEIIJJEHIKKKKHHLMMHH KLIIKHEEDD HHIINNOOIIPP CCCIII QQFFEE HHFFFF REREOOKSKSKKKK OOTTFFOFOFHHUUKEKKEK VV| Far out at sea there has been a storm | A |
| And still as they roll their liquid acres | B |
| High heaped the billows lower and glisten | C |
| The air is laden moist and warm | A |
| With the dying tempest's breath | D |
| And as I walk the lonely strand | E |
| With sea weed strewn my forehead fanned | E |
| By wet salt winds I watch the breakers | B |
| Furious sporting tossed and tumbling | F |
| Shatter here with a dreadful rumbling | F |
| Watch and muse and vainly listen | C |
| To the inarticulate mumbling | F |
| Of the hoary headed deep | G |
| For who may tell me what it saith | D |
| Muttering moaning as in sleep | G |
| - | |
| Slowly and heavily | H |
| Comes in the sea | H |
| With memories of storm o'erfreighted | E |
| With heaving heart and breath abated | E |
| Pregnant with some mysterious endless sorrow | I |
| And seamed with many a gaping sighing furrow | I |
| - | |
| Slowly and heavily | H |
| Grows the green water mound | E |
| But drawing ever nigher | I |
| Towering ever higher | I |
| Swollen with an inward rage | J |
| Naught but ruin can assuage | J |
| Swift now without sound | E |
| Creeps stealthily | H |
| Up to the shore | I |
| Creeps creeps and undulates | K |
| As one dissimulates | K |
| Till swayed by hateful frenzy | K |
| Through passion grown immense he | K |
| Bursts forth hostilely | H |
| And rising a smooth billow | H |
| Its swelling sunlit dome | L |
| Thinned to a tumid ledge | M |
| With keen curved edge | M |
| Like the scornful curl | H |
| Of lips that snarl | H |
| O'ertops itself and breaks | K |
| Into a raving foam | L |
| So springs upon the shore | I |
| With a hungry roar | I |
| Its first fierce anger slakes | K |
| On the stony shallow | H |
| And runs up on the land | E |
| Licking the smooth hard sand | E |
| Relentless cold yet wroth | D |
| And dies in savage froth | D |
| - | |
| Then with its backward swirl | H |
| The sands and the stones how they whirl | H |
| O fiercely doth it draw | I |
| Them to its chasm'd maw | I |
| And against it in vain | N |
| They linger and strain | N |
| And as they slip away | O |
| Into the seething gray | O |
| Fill all the thunderous air | I |
| With the horror of their despair | I |
| And their wild terror wreak | P |
| In one hoarse wailing shriek | P |
| - | |
| But scarce is this done | C |
| When another one | C |
| Falls like the bolt from a bellowing gun | C |
| And sucks away the shore | I |
| As that did before | I |
| And another shall smother it o'er | I |
| - | |
| Then there's a lull a half hush | Q |
| And forward the little waves rush | Q |
| Toppling and hurrying | F |
| Each other worrying | F |
| And in their haste | E |
| Run to waste | E |
| - | |
| Yet again is heard the trample | H |
| Of the surges high and ample | H |
| Their dreadful meeting | F |
| The wild and sudden breaking | F |
| The dinting and battering and beating | F |
| And swift forsaking | F |
| - | |
| And ever they burst and boom | R |
| A numberless host | E |
| Like heralds of doom | R |
| To the trembling coast | E |
| And ever the tangled spray | O |
| Is tossed from the fierce affray | O |
| And as with spectral arms | K |
| That taunt and beckon and mock | S |
| And scatter vague alarms | K |
| Clasps and unclasps the rock | S |
| Listlessly over it wanders | K |
| Moodily madly maunders | K |
| And hissingly falls | K |
| From the glistening walls | K |
| - | |
| So all day along the shore | O |
| Shout the breakers green and hoar | O |
| Weaving out their weird tune | T |
| Till at night the full moon | T |
| Weds the dark with that ring | F |
| Of gold that you see her fling | F |
| On the misty air | O |
| Then homeward slow returning | F |
| To slumbers deep I fare | O |
| Filled with an infinite yearning | F |
| With thoughts that rise and fall | H |
| To the sound of the sea's hollow call | H |
| Breathed now from white lit waves that reach | U |
| Cold fingers o'er the damp dark beach | U |
| To scatter a spray on my dreams | K |
| Till the slow and measured rote | E |
| Brings a drowsy ease | K |
| To my spirit and seems | K |
| To set it soothingly afloat | E |
| On broad and buoyant seas | K |
| Of endless rest lulled by the dirge | V |
| Of the melancholy surge | V |
George Parsons Lathrop
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