The Voice Of Many Waters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLKL| Oh Sea that with infinite sadness and infinite yearning | A |
| Liftest thy crystal forehead toward the unpitying stars | B |
| Evermore ebbing and flowing and evermore returning | A |
| Over thy fathomless depths and treacherous island bars | B |
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| Oh thou complaining sea that fillest the wide void spaces | C |
| Of the blue nebulous air with thy perpetual moan | D |
| Day and night day and night out of thy desolate places | C |
| Tell me thy terrible secret oh Sea what hast thou done | E |
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| Sometimes in the merry mornings with the sunshine's golden wonder | F |
| Glancing along thy cheek unwrinkled of any wind | G |
| Thou seemest to be at peace stifling thy great heart under | F |
| A face of absolute calm with danger and death behind | G |
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| But I hear thy voice at midnight smiting the awful silence | H |
| With the long suspiration of thy pain suppressed | I |
| And all the blue lagoons and all the listening islands | J |
| Shuddering have heard and locked thy secret in their breast | I |
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| Oh Sea thou art like my heart full of infinite sadness and pity | K |
| Of endless doubt and endeavour of sorrowful question and strife | L |
| Like some unlighted fortress within a beleagured city | K |
| Holding within and hiding the mystery of life | L |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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