On Old Cape Ann Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAABBAABCDECDE F A GHIGGHHGJKLJKM F A BNNBBNNBOPQOPQ R R STTSSTTSBBOBBO R R UKKUUKKUVWOVWO R X YOOZYOOYEYYEYU R Y UBBUUBBUBYYBYYAnnisquam | A |
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Old days old ways old homes beside the sea | B |
Old gardens with old fashioned flowers aflame | A |
Poppy petunia and many a name | A |
Of many a flower of fragrant pedigree | B |
Old hills that glow with blue and barberry | B |
And rocks and pines that stand on guard the same | A |
Immutable as when the Pilgrim came | A |
And here laid firm foundations of the Free | B |
The sunlight makes the dim dunes hills of snow | C |
And every vessel's sail a twinkling wing | D |
Glancing the violet ocean far away | E |
The world is full of color and of glow | C |
A mighty canvas whereon God doth fling | D |
The flawless picture of a perfect day | E |
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II | F |
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'The Highlands ' Annisquam | A |
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Here from the heights among the rocks and pines | G |
The sea and shore seem some tremendous page | H |
Of some vast book great with our heritage | I |
Breathing the splendor of majestic lines | G |
Yonder the dunes speak silver yonder shines | G |
The ocean's sapphire word there gray with age | H |
The granite writes its lesson strong and sage | H |
And there the surf its rhythmic passage signs | G |
The winds that sweep the page that interlude | J |
Its majesty with music and the tides | K |
That roll their thunder in that period | L |
Its mighty rhetoric deep and dream imbued | J |
Are what it seems to say of what abides | K |
Of what's eternal and of what is God | M |
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III | F |
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Storm At Annisquam | A |
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The sun sinks scarlet as a barberry | B |
Far off at sea one vessel lifts a sail | N |
Hurrying to harbor from the coming gale | N |
That banks the west above a choppy sea | B |
The sun is gone the fide is flowing free | B |
The bay is opaled with wild light and pale | N |
The lighthouse spears its flame now through a veil | N |
That falls about the sea mysteriously | B |
Out there she sits and mutters of her dead | O |
Old Ocean of the stalwart and the strong | P |
Skipper and fisher whom her arms dragged down | Q |
Before her now she sees their ghosts o'erhead | O |
As gray as rain their wild wrecks sweep along | P |
And all night long lay siege to this old town | Q |
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IV | R |
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From Cove To Cove | R |
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The road leads up a hill through many a brake | S |
Blueberry and barberry bay and sassafras | T |
By an abandoned quarry where like glass | T |
A round pool lies an isolated lake | S |
A mirror for what presences that make | S |
Their wildwood toilets here The road is grass | T |
Gray scarred with stone great bowlders as we pass | T |
Slope burly shoulders towards us Cedars shake | S |
Wild balsam from their tresses there and here | B |
Clasping a glimpse of ocean and of shore | B |
In arms of swaying green Below at last | O |
Beside the sea with derrick and with pier | B |
By heaps of granite noise of drill and bore | B |
A Cape Ann town towering with many a mast | O |
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V | R |
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Pastures By The Sea | R |
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Here where the coves indent the shore and fall | U |
And fill with ebb and flowing of the tides | K |
Whereon some barge rocks or some dory rides | K |
By which old orchards bloom or from the wall | U |
Pelt every lane with fruit where gardens tall | U |
With roses riot swift my gladness glides | K |
To that old pasture where the mushroom hides | K |
The chicory blooms and Peace sits mid them all | U |
Fenced in with rails and rocks its emerald slopes | V |
Ribbed with huge granite where the placid cows | W |
Tinkle a browsing bell roll to a height | O |
Wherefrom the sea bright as adventuring hopes | V |
Swept of white sails and plowed of foaming prows | W |
Leaps like a Nereid on the ravished sight | O |
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VI | R |
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The Dunes | X |
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Far as the eye can see in domes and spires | Y |
Buttress and curve ruins of shifting sand | O |
In whose wild making wind and sea took hand | O |
The white dunes stretch The wind that never tires | Z |
Striving for strange effects that he admires | Y |
Changes their form from time to time the land | O |
Forever passive to his mad demand | O |
And to the sea's who with the wind conspires | Y |
Here as on towers of desolate cities bay | E |
And wire grass grow wherein no insect cries | Y |
Only a bird the swallow of the sea | Y |
That homes in sand I hear it far away | E |
Crying or is it some lost soul that flies | Y |
Above the land ailing unceasingly | U |
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VII | R |
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By The Summer Sea | Y |
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Sunlight and shrill cicada and the low | U |
Slow sleepy kissing of the sea and shore | B |
And rumor of the wind The morning wore | B |
A sullen face of fog that lifted slow | U |
Letting her eyes gleam through of grayest glow | U |
Wearing a look like that which once she wore | B |
When Gloucesterward from Dogtown there they bore | B |
Some old witchwife with many a gibe and blow | U |
But now the day has put off every care | B |
And sits at peace beside the smiling sea | Y |
Dreaming bright dreams with lazy lidded eyes | Y |
One is a castle precipiced in air | B |
And one a golden galleons can it be | Y |
'Tis but the cloudworld of the sunset skies | Y |
Madison Julius Cawein
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