At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG| When the dim tall sails of the ships were in motion | A |
| Ghostly and slow and silent shod | B |
| We gazed where the dusk fled over the ocean | A |
| A great gray hush like the shadow of God | B |
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| The sky dome cut with its compass in sunder | C |
| A circle of sea from the darkened land | D |
| A circle of tremulous waste and wonder | C |
| O'er which one groped with a childish hand | D |
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| The true stars came to their stations in heaven | A |
| The false stars shivered deep down in the sea | E |
| And the white crests went like monsters driven | A |
| By winds that never would let them be | E |
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| And there where the elements mingled and muttered | F |
| We stood each man with a lone dumb heart | G |
| Full of the vastness that never was uttered | F |
| By symbol of words or by echo of art | G |
John Charles Mcneill
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