Dover Beach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDBDCEFCGFG HIHJIJ KEILEMEI ENNEIOOII| The sea is calm tonight | A |
| The tide is full the moon lies fair | B |
| Upon the straits on the French coast the light | A |
| Gleams and is gone the cliffs of England stand | C |
| Glimmering and vast out in the tranquil bay | D |
| Come to the window sweet is the night air | B |
| Only from the long line of spray | D |
| Where the sea meets the moon blanched land | C |
| Listen you hear the grating roar | E |
| Of pebbles which the waves draw back and fling | F |
| At their return up the high strand | C |
| Begin and cease and then again begin | G |
| With tremulous cadence slow and bring | F |
| The eternal note of sadness in | G |
| - | |
| Sophocles long ago | H |
| Heard it on the g an and it brought | I |
| Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow | H |
| Of human misery we | J |
| Find also in the sound a thought | I |
| Hearing it by this distant northern sea | J |
| - | |
| The Sea of Faith | K |
| Was once too at the full and round earth's shore | E |
| Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled | I |
| But now I only hear | L |
| Its melancholy long withdrawing roar | E |
| Retreating to the breath | M |
| Of the night wind down the vast edges drear | E |
| And naked shingles of the world | I |
| - | |
| Ah love let us be true | E |
| To one another for the world which seems | N |
| To lie before us like a land of dreams | N |
| So various so beautiful so new | E |
| Hath really neither joy nor love nor light | I |
| Nor certitude nor peace nor help for pain | O |
| And we are here as on a darkling plain | O |
| Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight | I |
| Where ignorant armies clash by night | I |
Matthew Arnold
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