Hampton Beach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCCD EBEEB FGHHG DIDDI JBJJB KCKKC LHLLH KMKKM AMAAM BNBBN OPOOP QRQQR STSLT UCUUC

THE SUNLIGHT glitters keen and brightA
Where miles awayB
Lies stretching to my dazzled sightA
A luminous belt a misty lightA
Beyond the dark pine bluffs and wastes of sandy grayB
The tremulous shadow of the SeaC
Against its groundD
Of silvery light rock hill and treeC
Still as a picture clear and freeC
With varying outline mark the coast for miles aroundD
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On on we tread with loose flung reinE
Our seaward wayB
Through dark green fields and blossoming grainE
Where the wild brier rose skirts the laneE
And bends above our heads the flowering locust sprayB
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Ha like a kind hand on my browF
Comes this fresh breezeG
Cooling its dull and feverish glowH
While through my being seems to flowH
The breath of a new life the healing of the seasG
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Now rest we where this grassy moundD
His feet hath setI
In the great waters which have boundD
His granite ankles greenly roundD
With long and tangled moss and weeds with cool spray wetI
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Good by to Pain and Care I takeJ
Mine ease to dayB
Here where these sunny waters breakJ
And ripples this keen breeze I shakeJ
All burdens from the heart all weary thoughts awayB
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I draw a freer breath I seemK
Like all I seeC
Waves in the sun the white winged gleamK
Of sea birds in the slanting beamK
And far off sails which flit before the south wind freeC
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So when Time s veil shall fall asunderL
The soul may knowH
No fearful change nor sudden wonderL
Nor sink the weight of mystery underL
But with the upward rise and with the vastness growH
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And all we shrink from now may seemK
No new revealingM
Familiar as our childhood s streamK
Or pleasant memory of a dreamK
The loved and cherished Past upon the new life stealingM
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Serene and mild the untried lightA
May have its dawningM
And as in summer s northern nightA
The evening and the dawn uniteA
The sunset hues of Time blend with the soul s new morningM
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I sit alone in foam and sprayB
Wave after waveN
Breaks on the rocks which stern and grayB
Shoulder the broken tide awayB
Or murmurs hoarse and strong through mossy cleft and caveN
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What heed I of the dusty landO
And noisy townP
I see the mighty deep expandO
From its white line of glimmering sandO
To where the blue of heaven on bluer waves shuts downP
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In listless quietude of mindQ
I yield to allR
The change of cloud and wave and windQ
And passive on the flood reclinedQ
I wander with the waves and with them rise and fallR
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But look thou dreamer wave and shoreS
In shadow lieT
The night wind warns me back once moreS
To where my native hill tops o erL
Bends like an arch of fire the glowing sunset skyT
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So then beach bluff and wave farewellU
I bear with meC
No token stone nor glittering shellU
But long and oft shall Memory tellU
Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the SeaC

John Greenleaf Whittier



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