The Lighthouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDBEBEBFBGHIHI| IN seas far north day after day | A |
| We leaned upon the rail engrossed | B |
| In frolic fin and jewel spray | A |
| And crystal headlands of the coast | B |
| Those beauties held so long in gaze | C |
| Have melted from my mind like snow | D |
| But still I see through rifted haze | C |
| The wizard tower and portico | D |
| That flashed one instant white and whist | B |
| A grace too exquisite to keep | E |
| A picture springing from the mist | B |
| As a dream comes shining out of sleep | E |
| I do not know what name he wrote | B |
| Our captain in his good ship's log | F |
| For that sea wraith how men denote | B |
| Our fleeting phantom of the fog | G |
| But yet across the world I thrill | H |
| With rapture of that ivory gleam | I |
| That sudden shaft of glory till | H |
| It wears the wonder of a dream | I |
Katharine Lee Bates
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