Tide-water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCEDE EEFEEGFFEF GFEE FEEEEFEEEH FEEHIIJJEFEEEKE LFLKMKMNN

Through many winding valleys far inlandA
A maze among the convoluted hillsB
Of rocks up piled and pines on either handA
And meadows ribbanded with silver rillsB
Faint mingled up composite sweetnessesB
Of scented grass and clover and the blueC
Wild violet hid in muffling moss and fernD
Keen and diverse another breath cleaves throughC
Familiar as the taste of tears to meE
As on my lips insistent I discernD
The salt and bitter kisses of the seaE
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The tide sets up the river mimic fleetnessesE
Of little wavelets fretted by the shellsE
And shingle of the beach circle and eddy roundF
And smooth themselves perpetually there dwellsE
A spirit of peace in their low murmuring noiseE
Subsiding into quiet as if life were suchG
A struggle with inexorable boundF
Brief bright despairing never over leptF
Dying in such wise with a sighing voiceE
Breathed out and after silence absoluteF
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Faith eager hope toil tears despair so muchG
The common lot together over sweptF
Into the pitiless unreturning seaE
The vast immitigable seaE
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I walk beside the river and am muteF
Under the burden o fits mysteryE
The cricket pipes among the meadow grassE
His shrill small trumpet of long summer nightsE
Sole minstrel and the lonely heron makesE
Voyaging slow toward her reedy nestF
A moving shadow among sunset lightsE
Upon the river's darkening wave which breaksE
Into a thousand circling shapes that passE
Into the one black shadow of the shoreH
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O tranquil spirit of the pervading testF
Brooding along the valleys with shut wingsE
That fold all sentient and inanimate thingsE
In their entrenched calm for evermoreH
Save only the unquiet human soulI
Hear'st thou the far off sound of waves that rollI
In sighing cadence like a soul in painJ
Hopeless of heaven or peace beating in vainJ
The shores implacable for some repliesE
To the dumb anguish of eternal doubtF
As I for the sad thoughts that rise in meE
Feel'st thou upon thy heavy lidded eyesE
The salt and bitter kisses of the seaE
And dost thou draw like me a shuddering breathK
Among dusk shadows brooding silentlyE
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Ah me thou hear'st me not I walk aloneL
The doubt within me and the dark withoutF
In my sad ears the waves' recurrent moanL
Sounds like the surges of the sea of deathK
Beating for evermore the shores of timeM
With muttered prophecies which sorrow saithK
Over and over like a set slow chimeM
Of funeral bells tolling remote forlornN
Dirge like the burden Man was made to mournN

Kate Seymour Maclean



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