A Sea Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBEB FBFB GBGB HBHB IBIB JBJB ABAB KBKB LBLB| There are certain things as a spider a ghost | A |
| The income tax gout an umbrella for three | B |
| That I hate but the thing that I hate the most | A |
| Is a thing they call the Sea | B |
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| Pour some salt water over the floor | C |
| Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it to be | B |
| Suppose it extended a mile or more | C |
| That's very like the Sea | B |
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| Beat a dog till it howls outright | D |
| Cruel but all very well for a spree | B |
| Suppose that he did so day and night | D |
| That would be like the Sea | B |
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| I had a vision of nursery maids | E |
| Tens of thousands passed by me | B |
| All leading children with wooden spades | E |
| And this was by the Sea | B |
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| Who invented those spades of wood | F |
| Who was it cut them out of the tree | B |
| None I think but an idiot could | F |
| Or one that loved the Sea | B |
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| It is pleasant and dreamy no doubt to float | G |
| With thoughts as boundless and souls as free | B |
| But suppose you are very unwell in the boat | G |
| How do you like the Sea | B |
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| There is an insect that people avoid | H |
| Whence is derived the verb to flee | B |
| Where have you been by it most annoyed | H |
| In lodgings by the Sea | B |
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| If you like your coffee with sand for dregs | I |
| A decided hint of salt in your tea | B |
| And a fishy taste in the very eggs | I |
| By all means choose the Sea | B |
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| And if with these dainties to drink and eat | J |
| You prefer not a vestige of grass or tree | B |
| And a chronic state of wet in your feet | J |
| Then I recommend the Sea | B |
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| For I have friends who dwell by the coast | A |
| Pleasant friends they are to me | B |
| It is when I am with them I wonder most | A |
| That anyone likes the Sea | B |
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| They take me a walk though tired and stiff | K |
| To climb the heights I madly agree | B |
| And after a tumble or so from the cliff | K |
| They kindly suggest the Sea | B |
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| I try the rocks and I think it cool | L |
| That they laugh with such an excess of glee | B |
| As I heavily slip into every pool | L |
| That skirts the cold cold Sea | B |
Lewis Carroll
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