Calais Sands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML IEIE INON IPQP RSHS TOUO| A thousand knights have rein'd their steeds | A |
| To watch this line of sand hills run | B |
| Along the never silent Strait | C |
| To Calais glittering in the sun | B |
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| To look toward Ardres' Golden Field | D |
| Across this wide a rial plain | E |
| Which glows as if the Middle Age | F |
| Were gorgeous upon earth again | G |
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| Oh that to share this famous scene | H |
| I saw upon the open sand | I |
| Thy lovely presence at my side | J |
| Thy shawl thy look thy smile thy hand | I |
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| How exquisite thy voice would come | K |
| My darling on this lonely air | L |
| How sweetly would the fresh sea breeze | M |
| Shake loose some lock of soft brown hair | L |
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| But now my glance but once hath roved | I |
| O'er Calais and its famous plain | E |
| To England's cliffs my gaze is turn'd | I |
| O'er the blue Strait mine eyes I strain | E |
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| Thou comest Yes the vessel's cloud | I |
| Hangs dark upon the rolling sea | N |
| Oh that yon seabird's wings were mine | O |
| To win one instant's glimpse of thee | N |
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| I must not spring to grasp thy hand | I |
| To woo thy smile to seek thine eye | P |
| But I may stand far off and gaze | Q |
| And watch thee pass unconscious by | P |
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| And spell thy looks and guess thy thoughts | R |
| Mixt with the idlers on the pier | S |
| Ah might I always rest unseen | H |
| So I might have thee always near | S |
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| To morrow hurry through the fields | T |
| Of Flanders to the storied Rhine | O |
| To night those soft fringed eyes shall close | U |
| Beneath one roof my queen with mine | O |
Matthew Arnold
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