Hampton Beach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCCD EBEEB FGHHG DIDDI JBJJB KCKKC LHLLH KMKKM AMAAM BNBBN OPOOP QRQQR STSLT UCUUCTHE SUNLIGHT glitters keen and bright | A |
Where miles away | B |
Lies stretching to my dazzled sight | A |
A luminous belt a misty light | A |
Beyond the dark pine bluffs and wastes of sandy gray | B |
The tremulous shadow of the Sea | C |
Against its ground | D |
Of silvery light rock hill and tree | C |
Still as a picture clear and free | C |
With varying outline mark the coast for miles around | D |
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On on we tread with loose flung rein | E |
Our seaward way | B |
Through dark green fields and blossoming grain | E |
Where the wild brier rose skirts the lane | E |
And bends above our heads the flowering locust spray | B |
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Ha like a kind hand on my brow | F |
Comes this fresh breeze | G |
Cooling its dull and feverish glow | H |
While through my being seems to flow | H |
The breath of a new life the healing of the seas | G |
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Now rest we where this grassy mound | D |
His feet hath set | I |
In the great waters which have bound | D |
His granite ankles greenly round | D |
With long and tangled moss and weeds with cool spray wet | I |
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Good by to Pain and Care I take | J |
Mine ease to day | B |
Here where these sunny waters break | J |
And ripples this keen breeze I shake | J |
All burdens from the heart all weary thoughts away | B |
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I draw a freer breath I seem | K |
Like all I see | C |
Waves in the sun the white winged gleam | K |
Of sea birds in the slanting beam | K |
And far off sails which flit before the south wind free | C |
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So when Time s veil shall fall asunder | L |
The soul may know | H |
No fearful change nor sudden wonder | L |
Nor sink the weight of mystery under | L |
But with the upward rise and with the vastness grow | H |
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And all we shrink from now may seem | K |
No new revealing | M |
Familiar as our childhood s stream | K |
Or pleasant memory of a dream | K |
The loved and cherished Past upon the new life stealing | M |
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Serene and mild the untried light | A |
May have its dawning | M |
And as in summer s northern night | A |
The evening and the dawn unite | A |
The sunset hues of Time blend with the soul s new morning | M |
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I sit alone in foam and spray | B |
Wave after wave | N |
Breaks on the rocks which stern and gray | B |
Shoulder the broken tide away | B |
Or murmurs hoarse and strong through mossy cleft and cave | N |
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What heed I of the dusty land | O |
And noisy town | P |
I see the mighty deep expand | O |
From its white line of glimmering sand | O |
To where the blue of heaven on bluer waves shuts down | P |
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In listless quietude of mind | Q |
I yield to all | R |
The change of cloud and wave and wind | Q |
And passive on the flood reclined | Q |
I wander with the waves and with them rise and fall | R |
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But look thou dreamer wave and shore | S |
In shadow lie | T |
The night wind warns me back once more | S |
To where my native hill tops o er | L |
Bends like an arch of fire the glowing sunset sky | T |
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So then beach bluff and wave farewell | U |
I bear with me | C |
No token stone nor glittering shell | U |
But long and oft shall Memory tell | U |
Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the Sea | C |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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