By The Sea-shore At Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG AIIA JGGJ KLLK MNNM OPPOO| Oh lapping waves oh gnawing waves | A |
| That rest not day nor night | B |
| I hear ye when the light | B |
| Is dim and awful in your hollow caves | A |
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| All day the winds were out and rode | C |
| Their steeds your tossing crest | D |
| To night the fierce winds rest | D |
| And the moon walks above them her bright road | C |
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| Yet none the less ye lift your hands | E |
| And your despairing cry | F |
| Up to the midnight sky | F |
| And clutch and trample on the shuddering sands | E |
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| That shrink and tremble even in sleep | G |
| Out of your passionate reach | H |
| Afraid of your dread speech | H |
| And the more dreadful silence that ye keep | G |
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| Oh sapping waves oh mining waves | A |
| Under the oak's gnarled feet | I |
| And tower and village street | I |
| Scooping by stealth in darkness myriad graves | A |
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| What secret strive ye thus to hide | J |
| A thousand fathoms deep | G |
| Which the sea will not keep | G |
| And pours and babbles forth upon her refluent tide | J |
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| I see your torn and wind blown hair | K |
| Shewn far along the shore | L |
| And lifted evermore | L |
| You white hands tossing in a fierce despair | K |
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| And half I deem ye hold below | M |
| In vast and wandering cell | N |
| The primal spirits who fell | N |
| Reserved in chains and immemorial woe | M |
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| Keep ye oh waves your mystery | O |
| The time draws on apace | P |
| When from before His face | P |
| The heavens and the earth shall flee | O |
| And evermore there shall be no more sea | O |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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