A Sea Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STUTT VWXWW LYZYY A2B2C2B2B2 D2ME2MM F2G2H2G2G2 I2J2K2J2J2 L2M2SM2M2 N2WO2WW A2LP2LL Q2TR2TT FS2T2S2 U2V2U2V2 W2X2W2X2 Y2NZ2N A3MB3M J2C3J2C3

We saw the slow tides go and comeA
The curving surf lines lightly drawnB
The gray rocks touched with tender bloomC
Beneath the fresh blown rose of dawnB
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We saw in richer sunsets lostD
The sombre pomp of showery noonsE
And signalled spectral sails that crossedD
The weird low light of rising moonsE
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On stormy eves from cliff and headF
We saw the white spray tossed and spurnedG
While over all in gold and redF
Its face of fire the lighthouse turnedG
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The rail car brought its daily crowdsH
Half curious half indifferentI
Like passing sails or floating cloudsH
We saw them as they came and wentJ
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But one calm morning as we layK
And watched the mirage lifted wallL
Of coast across the dreamy bayK
And heard afar the curlew callL
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And nearer voices wild or tameM
Of airy flock and childish throngN
Up from the water's edge there cameM
Faint snatches of familiar songN
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Careless we heard the singer's choiceO
Of old and common airs at lastP
The tender pathos of his voiceO
In one low chanson held us fastP
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A song that mingled joy and painQ
And memories old and sadly sweetR
While timing to its minor strainQ
The waves in lapsing cadence beatR
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The waves are glad in breeze and sunS
The rocks are fringed with foamT
I walk once more a haunted shoreU
A stranger yet at homeT
A land of dreams I roamT
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Is this the wind the soft sea windV
That stirred thy locks of brownW
Are these the rocks whose mosses knewX
The trail of thy light gownW
Where boy and girl sat downW
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I see the gray fort's broken wallL
The boats that rock belowY
And out at sea the passing sailsZ
We saw so long agoY
Rose red in morning's glowY
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The freshness of the early timeA2
On every breeze is blownB2
As glad the sea as blue the skyC2
The change is ours aloneB2
The saddest is my ownB2
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A stranger now a world worn manD2
Is he who bears my nameM
But thou methinks whose mortal lifeE2
Immortal youth becameM
Art evermore the sameM
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Thou art not here thou art not thereF2
Thy place I cannot seeG2
I only know that where thou artH2
The blessed angels beG2
And heaven is glad for theeG2
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Forgive me if the evil yearsI2
Have left on me their signJ2
Wash out O soul so beautifulK2
The many stains of mineJ2
In tears of love divineJ2
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I could not look on thee and liveL2
If thou wert by my sideM2
The vision of a shining oneS
The white and heavenly brideM2
Is well to me deniedM2
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But turn to me thy dear girl faceN2
Without the angel's crownW
The wedded roses of thy lipsO2
Thy loose hair rippling downW
In waves of golden brownW
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Look forth once more through space and timeA2
And let thy sweet shade fallL
In tenderest grace of soul and formP2
On memory's frescoed wallL
A shadow and yet allL
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Draw near more near forever dearQ2
Where'er I rest or roamT
Or in the city's crowded streetsR2
Or by the blown sea foamT
The thought of thee is homeT
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At breakfast hour the singer readF
The city news with comment wiseS2
Like one who felt the pulse of tradeT2
Beneath his finger fall and riseS2
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His look his air his curt speech toldU2
The man of action not of booksV2
To whom the corners made in goldU2
And stocks were more than seaside nooksV2
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Of life beneath the life confessedW2
His song had hinted unawaresX2
Of flowers in traffic's ledgers pressedW2
Of human hearts in bulls and bearsX2
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But eyes in vain were turned to watchY2
That face so hard and shrewd and strongN
And ears in vain grew sharp to catchZ2
The meaning of that morning songN
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In vain some sweet voiced querist soughtA3
To sound him leaving as she cameM
Her baited album only caughtB3
A common unromantic nameM
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No word betrayed the mystery fineJ2
That trembled on the singer's tongueC3
He came and went and left no signJ2
Behind him save the song he sungC3

John Greenleaf Whittier



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