The Ashes In The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ SRSR| Whither with blue and pleading eyes | A |
| Whither with cheeks that held the light | B |
| Of winter's dawn in cloudless skies | A |
| Evadne was thy flight | B |
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| Such as a sister's was thy brow | C |
| Thy hair seemed fallen from the moon | D |
| Part of its radiance as now | C |
| Of shifting tide and dune | D |
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| Did Autumn's grieving lure thee hence | E |
| Or silence ultimate beguile | F |
| Ever our things of consequence | G |
| Awakened but thy smile | F |
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| Is it with thee that ocean takes | H |
| A stranger sorrow to its tone | I |
| With thee the star of evening wakes | H |
| More beautiful more lone | I |
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| For wave and hill and sky betray | J |
| A subtle tinge and touch of thee | K |
| Thy shadow lingers in the day | J |
| Thy voice in winds to be | K |
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| Beauty hast thou discovered her | L |
| By deeper seas no moons control | M |
| What stars have magic now to stir | L |
| Thy swift and wilful soul | M |
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| Or may thy heart no more forget | N |
| The grievous world that once was home | O |
| That here where love awaits thee yet | N |
| Thou seemest yet to roam | O |
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| For most far wandering I guess | P |
| Thy witchery on the haunted mind | Q |
| In valleys of thy loneliness | R |
| Made clean with ocean's wind | Q |
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| And most thy presence here seems told | S |
| A waif of elemental deeps | R |
| When at its vigils unconsoled | S |
| Some night of winter weeps | R |
George Sterling
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