A Parable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDDCC EFFEE DGGDD| BETWEEN the sandhills and the sea | A |
| A narrow strip of silver sand | B |
| Whereon a little maid doth stand | B |
| Who picks up shells continually | A |
| Between the sandhills and the sea | A |
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| Far as her wondering eyes can reach | C |
| A Vastness heaving grey in grey | D |
| To the frayed edges where the day | D |
| Furls his red standard on the breach | C |
| Between the skyline and the beach | C |
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| The waters of the flowing tide | E |
| Cast up the seapink shells and weed | F |
| She toys with shells and doth not heed | F |
| The ocean which on every side | E |
| Is closing round her vast and wide | E |
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| It creeps her way as if in play | D |
| Pink shells at her pink feet to cast | G |
| But now the wild waves hold her fast | G |
| And bear her off and melt away | D |
| A Vastness heaving gray in gray | D |
Mathilde Blind
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