The Long White Seam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEAFA GHIHJHKBLB MANAEAOBPB| As I came round the harbor buoy | A |
| The lights began to gleam | B |
| No wave the land locked water stirred | C |
| The crags were white as cream | B |
| And I marked my love by candle light | D |
| Sewing her long white seam | B |
| It's aye sewing ashore my dear | E |
| Watch and steer at sea | A |
| It's reef and furl and haul the line | F |
| Set sail and think of thee | A |
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| I climbed to reach her cottage door | G |
| O sweetly my love sings | H |
| Like a shaft of light her voice breaks forth | I |
| My soul to meet it springs | H |
| As the shining water leaped of old | J |
| When stirred by angel wings | H |
| Aye longing to list anew | K |
| Awake and in my dream | B |
| But never a song she sang like this | L |
| Sewing her long white seam | B |
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| Fair fall the lights the harbor lights | M |
| That brought me in to thee | A |
| And peace drop down on that low roof | N |
| For the sight that I did see | A |
| And the voice my dear that rang so clear | E |
| All for the love of me | A |
| For O for O with brows bent low | O |
| By the candle's flickering gleam | B |
| Her wedding gown it was she wrought | P |
| Sewing the long white seam | B |
Jean Ingelow
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