Waves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAAAAAACAAD| I saw the daughters of the ocean dance | A |
| With wind and tide and heard them on the rocks | B |
| White hands they waved me tossing sunlit locks | B |
| Green as the light an emerald holds in trance | A |
| Their music bound me as with necromance | A |
| Of mermaid beauty that for ever mocks | A |
| And lured me as destruction lures wild flocks | A |
| Of light led gulls and storm tossed cormorants | A |
| Nearer my feet they crept I felt their lips | A |
| Their hands of foam that caught at me to press | A |
| As once they pressed Leander and straightway | C |
| I saw the monster ending of their hips | A |
| The cruelty hid in their soft caress | A |
| The siren passion ever more to slay | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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