Songs On The Voices Of Birds. Sea-mews In Winter Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI JKJK LMLM NANA OCOC PAPA KQKQ BFBF| I walked beside a dark gray sea | A |
| And said O world how cold thou art | B |
| Thou poor white world I pity thee | A |
| For joy and warmth from thee depart | B |
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| Yon rising wave licks off the snow | C |
| Winds on the crag each other chase | D |
| In little powdery whirls they blow | C |
| The misty fragments down its face | D |
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| The sea is cold and dark its rim | E |
| Winter sits cowering on the wold | F |
| And I beside this watery brim | E |
| Am also lonely also cold | F |
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| I spoke and drew toward a rock | G |
| Where many mews made twittering sweet | H |
| Their wings upreared the clustering flock | G |
| Did pat the sea grass with their feet | H |
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| A rock but half submerged the sea | A |
| Ran up and washed it while they fed | I |
| Their fond and foolish ecstasy | A |
| A wondering in my fancy bred | I |
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| Joy companied with every cry | J |
| Joy in their food in that keen wind | K |
| That heaving sea that shaded sky | J |
| And in themselves and in their kind | K |
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| The phantoms of the deep at play | L |
| What idless graced the twittering things | M |
| Luxurious paddlings in the spray | L |
| And delicate lifting up of wings | M |
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| Then all at once a flight and fast | N |
| The lovely crowd flew out to sea | A |
| If mine own life had been recast | N |
| Earth had not looked more changed to me | A |
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| Where is the cold Yon clouded skies | O |
| Have only dropt their curtains low | C |
| To shade the old mother where she lies | O |
| Sleeping a little 'neath the snow | C |
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| The cold is not in crag nor scar | P |
| Not in the snows that lap the lea | A |
| Not in yon wings that beat afar | P |
| Delighting on the crested sea | A |
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| No nor in yon exultant wind | K |
| That shakes the oak and bends the pine | Q |
| Look near look in and thou shalt find | K |
| No sense of cold fond fool but thine | Q |
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| With that I felt the gloom depart | B |
| And thoughts within me did unfold | F |
| Whose sunshine warmed me to the heart | B |
| I walked in joy and was not cold | F |
Jean Ingelow
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