The Alde Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCBCE FGHEHGHE IJKLKJKE| How near I walked to Love | A |
| How long I cannot tell | B |
| I was like the Alde that flows | C |
| Quietly through green level lands | D |
| So quietly it knows | C |
| Their shape their greenness and their shadows well | B |
| And then undreamingly for miles it goes | C |
| And silently beside the sea | E |
| - | |
| Seamews circle over | F |
| The winter wildfowl wings | G |
| Long and green the grasses wave | H |
| Between the river and the sea | E |
| The sea's cry wild or grave | H |
| From bank to low bank of the river rings | G |
| But the uncertain river though it crave | H |
| The sea knows not the sea | E |
| - | |
| Was that indeed salt wind | I |
| Came that noise from falling | J |
| Wild waters on a stony shore | K |
| Oh what is this new troubling tide | L |
| Of eager waves that pour | K |
| Around and over leaping parting recalling | J |
| How near I moved as day to same day wore | K |
| And silently beside the sea | E |
John Freeman
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