Sea Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBFB GHGH IBIB CDCD| Against the planks of the cabin side | A |
| So slight a thing between them and me | B |
| The great waves thundered and throbbed and sighed | A |
| The great green waves of the Indian sea | B |
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| Your face was white as the foam is white | C |
| Your hair was curled as the waves are curled | D |
| I would we had steamed and reached that night | C |
| The sea's last edge the end of the world | D |
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| The wind blew in through the open port | E |
| So freshly joyous and salt and free | B |
| Your hair it lifted your lips it sought | F |
| And then swept back to the open sea | B |
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| The engines throbbed with their constant beat | G |
| Your heart was nearer and all I heard | H |
| Your lips were salt but I found them sweet | G |
| While acquiescent you spoke no word | H |
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| So straight you lay in your narrow berth | I |
| Rocked by the waves and you seemed to be | B |
| Essence of all that is sweet on earth | I |
| Of all that is sad and strange at sea | B |
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| And you were white as the foam is white | C |
| Your hair was curled as the waves are curled | D |
| Ah had we but sailed and reached that night | C |
| The sea's last edge the end of the world | D |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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