Seaweed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB DCEFFE GGGFFG FFHGGI JJFGGF KLMJJM EENOOP FFQLKQ| When descends on the Atlantic | A |
| The gigantic | A |
| Storm wind of the equinox | B |
| Landward in his wrath he scourges | C |
| The toiling surges | D |
| Laden with seaweed from the rocks | B |
| - | |
| From Bermuda's reefs from edges | D |
| Of sunken ledges | C |
| In some far off bright Azore | E |
| From Bahama and the dashing | F |
| Silver flashing | F |
| Surges of San Salvador | E |
| - | |
| From the tumbling surf that buries | G |
| The Orkneyan skerries | G |
| Answering the hoarse Hebrides | G |
| And from wrecks of ships and drifting | F |
| Spars uplifting | F |
| On the desolate rainy seas | G |
| - | |
| Ever drifting drifting drifting | F |
| On the shifting | F |
| Currents of the restless main | H |
| Till in sheltered coves and reaches | G |
| Of sandy beaches | G |
| All have found repose again | I |
| - | |
| So when storms of wild emotion | J |
| Strike the ocean | J |
| Of the poet's soul erelong | F |
| From each cave and rocky fastness | G |
| In its vastness | G |
| Floats some fragment of a song | F |
| - | |
| From the far off isles enchanted | K |
| Heaven has planted | L |
| With the golden fruit of Truth | M |
| From the flashing surf whose vision | J |
| Gleams Elysian | J |
| In the tropic clime of Youth | M |
| - | |
| From the strong Will and the Endeavor | E |
| That forever | E |
| Wrestle with the tides of Fate | N |
| From the wreck of Hopes far scattered | O |
| Tempest shattered | O |
| Floating waste and desolate | P |
| - | |
| Ever drifting drifting drifting | F |
| On the shifting | F |
| Currents of the restless heart | Q |
| Till at length in books recorded | L |
| They like hoarded | K |
| Household words no more depart | Q |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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