The Sea-shore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEF GGHHIIJE KKBBLLMM NNAAOAPP| I SHOULD like to dwell where the deep blue sea | A |
| Rock'd to and fro as tranquilly | B |
| As if it were willing the halcyon's nest | C |
| Should shelter through summer its beautiful guest | C |
| When a plaining murmur like that of a song | D |
| And a silvery line come the waves along | D |
| Now bathing now leaving the gentle shore | E |
| Where shining sea shells lay scattered o'er | F |
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| And children wandering along the strand | G |
| With the eager eye and the busy hand | G |
| Heaping the pebbles and green sea weed | H |
| Like treasures laid up for a time of need | H |
| Or tempting the waves with their daring feet | I |
| To launch perhaps some tiny fleet | I |
| Mimicking those which bear afar | J |
| The wealth of trade and the strength of war | E |
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| I should love when the sun set reddened the foam | K |
| To watch the fisherman's boat come home | K |
| With his well filled net and glittering spoil | B |
| Well has the noon tide repaid its toil | B |
| While the ships that lie in the distance away | L |
| Catch on their canvass the crimsoning ray | L |
| Like fairy ships in the tales of old | M |
| When the sails they spread were purple and gold | M |
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| Then the deep delight of the starry night | N |
| With its shadowy depths and dreamy light | N |
| When far away spreads the boundless sea | A |
| As if it imaged infinity | A |
| Let me hear the winds go singing by | O |
| Lulling the waves with their melody | A |
| While the moon like a mother watches their sleep | P |
| And I ask no home but beside the deep | P |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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