In The Harbour: The City And The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DD EE FF AA| The panting City cried to the Sea | A |
| 'I am faint with heat O breathe on me ' | B |
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| And the Sea said 'Lo I breathe but my breath | C |
| To some will be life to others death ' | - |
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| As to Prometheus bringing ease | D |
| In pain come the Oceanides | D |
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| So to the City hot with the flame | E |
| Of the pitiless sun the east wind came | E |
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| It came from the heaving breast of the deep | F |
| Silent as dreams are and sudden as sleep | F |
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| Life giving death giving which will it be | A |
| O breath of the merciful merciless Sea | A |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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