Poet Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

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Dover Beach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDBDCEFCGFG HIHJIJ KEILEMEI ENNEIOOII

The sea is calm tonightA
The tide is full the moon lies fairB
Upon the straits on the French coast the lightA
Gleams and is gone the cliffs of England standC
Glimmering and vast out in the tranquil bayD
Come to the window sweet is the night airB
Only from the long line of sprayD
Where the sea meets the moon blanched landC
Listen you hear the grating roarE
Of pebbles which the waves draw back and flingF
At their return up the high strandC
Begin and cease and then again beginG
With tremulous cadence slow and bringF
The eternal note of sadness inG
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Sophocles long agoH
Heard it on the g an and it broughtI
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flowH
Of human misery weJ
Find also in the sound a thoughtI
Hearing it by this distant northern seaJ
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The Sea of FaithK
Was once too at the full and round earth's shoreE
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furledI
But now I only hearL
Its melancholy long withdrawing roarE
Retreating to the breathM
Of the night wind down the vast edges drearE
And naked shingles of the worldI
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Ah love let us be trueE
To one another for the world which seemsN
To lie before us like a land of dreamsN
So various so beautiful so newE
Hath really neither joy nor love nor lightI
Nor certitude nor peace nor help for painO
And we are here as on a darkling plainO
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flightI
Where ignorant armies clash by nightI

Matthew Arnold



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