Though It Lash The Shallows That Line The Beach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDFBGBG| Though it lash the shallows that line the beach | A |
| Afar from the great sea deeps | B |
| There is never a storm whose might can reach | A |
| Where the vast leviathan sleeps | B |
| Like a mighty thought in a quiet mind | C |
| In the clear cold depths he swims | B |
| Whilst above him the pettiest form of his kind | C |
| With a dash o'er the surface skims | B |
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| There is peace in power the men who speak | D |
| With the loudest tongues do least | E |
| And the surest sign of a mind that is weak | D |
| Is its want of the power to rest | F |
| It is only the lighter water that flies | B |
| From the sea on a windy day | G |
| And the deep blue ocean never replies | B |
| To the sibilant voice of the spray | G |
John Boyle O'reilly
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