The Dreamer On The Sea-shore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B B C C D D E F G G H H I I J K L L M M N N O O P P Q Q H H C C R R S S T T C C U F F F V V D D| A | |
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| What are the dreams of him who may sleep | B |
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| Where the solemn voice of the troubled deep | B |
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| Steals on the wind with a sullen roar | C |
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| And the waters foam along the shore | C |
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| Who shelter'd lies in some calm retreat | D |
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| And hears the music of waves at his feet | D |
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| He sees not the sail that passes on | E |
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| O'er the sunny fields of the sea alone | F |
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| The farthest point that gleams on the sight | G |
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| A vanishing speck of glittering light | G |
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| He sees not the spray that spreading wide | H |
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| Throws its lines of snow on the dark green tide | H |
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| Or the billows rushing with crests of foam | I |
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| As they strove which first should reach their home | I |
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| Their home What home has the restless main | J |
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| Which only arrives to return again | K |
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| Like the wand'rer she bears on her stormy breast | L |
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| Who seeks in vain for a place of rest | L |
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| Lo His visions bear him along | M |
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| To rocks that have heard the mermaid's song | M |
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| Or borne on the surface of some dark surge | N |
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| Unharm'd he lies while they onward urge | N |
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| Their rapid course and waft him away | O |
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| To islands half hid 'midst the shadowy spray | O |
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| Where trees wave their boughs in the perfum'd gale | P |
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| And bid the wave borne stranger hail | P |
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| Where birds are flitting like gems in the sun | Q |
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| And streams over emerald meadows run | Q |
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| That whisper in melody as they glide | H |
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| To the flowers that blush along their side | H |
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| Sorrow ne'er came to that blissful shore | C |
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| For no mortal has entered that isle before | C |
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| There the Halcyon waits on the sparkling strand | R |
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| Till the bark of her lover the Nautilus land | R |
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| She spreads her purple wings to the air | S |
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| And she sees his fragile vessel there | S |
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| She sees him float on the summer sea | T |
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| Where no breath but the sigh of his love may be | T |
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| The dreamer leaps towards that smiling shore | C |
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| When lo the vision is there no more | C |
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| Its trees its flowers its birds are gone | U |
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| A waste of waters is spread alone | F |
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| Plunged in the tide he struggles amain | F |
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| High they pour and he strives in vain | F |
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| He sinks the billows close over his head | V |
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| He shrieks 'tis over the dream is fled | V |
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| Secure he lies in his calm retreat | D |
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| And the idle waters still rave at his feet | D |
Louisa Stuart Costello
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