On Seeing A Train Start For The Seaside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHJKL MNMNOO PQPQOO

O might I leave this grassy placeA
For spreading foam about my feetB
The splendid spray upon my faceA
The flying brine itself were sweetB
If I might hear on Cromer beachC
The freedom of Old Neptune's speechC
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Ah never language like to thisD
For those whose ears can understandE
Sometimes the coming of a kissD
To mate the ocean with the strandE
Sometimes the nameless oath is heardF
The sea god thunders through his beardG
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I have a sea of blue on highH
I have a sea of green beneathI
For me sweet inland birds do cryH
Until with joy I hold my breathJ
But Ocean's harp of wave and stoneK
Is bird and leaf and stream in oneL
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Upon my dancing apple spraysM
The blackbird whistles melodiesN
Half through a mellow run he staysM
And flashes to a neighbour's treesN
He's rare but rarer now would beO
The strident pebbles of the seaO
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And is it strange that round the shoreP
The lyric water should rejoiceQ
Ah no for ever more and moreP
The happy dead are in its voiceQ
Majestic poet might I beO
As full of song as finely freeO

Norman Rowland Gale



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