Pebbles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBC ADEFGHGIJKLK AMNMNOO PMP QR NSMRS QTQ| I | A |
| Though the Clerk of the Weather insist | B |
| And lay down the weather law | C |
| Pintado and gannet they wist | B |
| That the winds blow whither they list | B |
| In tempest or flaw | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Old are the creeds but stale the schools | D |
| Revamped as the mode may veer | E |
| But Orm from the schools to the beaches | F |
| strays | G |
| And finding a Conch hoar with time he | H |
| delays | G |
| And reverent lifts it to ear | I |
| That Voice pitched in far monotone | J |
| Shall it swerve shall it deviate ever | K |
| The Seas have inspired it and Truth | L |
| Truth varying from sameness never | K |
| - | |
| III | A |
| In hollows of the liquid hills | M |
| Where the long Blue Ridges run | N |
| The flattery of no echo thrills | M |
| For echo the seas have none | N |
| Nor aught that gives man back man's strain | O |
| The hope of his heart the dream in his brain | O |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| On ocean where the embattled fleets repair | P |
| Man suffering inflictor sails on sufferance | M |
| there | P |
| - | |
| V | - |
| Implacable I the old Implacable Sea | - |
| Implacable most when most I smile serene | Q |
| Pleased not appeased by myriad wrecks in | R |
| me | - |
| - | |
| VI | - |
| Curled in the comb of yon billow Andean | N |
| Is it the Dragon's heaven challenging crest | S |
| Elemental mad ramping of ravening waters | M |
| Yet Christ on the Mount and the dove in | R |
| her nest | S |
| - | |
| VII | - |
| Healed of my hurt I laud the inhuman Sea | - |
| Yea bless the Angels Four that there convene | Q |
| For healed I am ever by their pitiless breath | T |
| Distilled in wholesome dew named rosmarine | Q |
Herman Melville
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