On Seeing A Train Start For The Seaside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHJKL MNMNOO PQPQOOO might I leave this grassy place | A |
For spreading foam about my feet | B |
The splendid spray upon my face | A |
The flying brine itself were sweet | B |
If I might hear on Cromer beach | C |
The freedom of Old Neptune's speech | C |
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Ah never language like to this | D |
For those whose ears can understand | E |
Sometimes the coming of a kiss | D |
To mate the ocean with the strand | E |
Sometimes the nameless oath is heard | F |
The sea god thunders through his beard | G |
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I have a sea of blue on high | H |
I have a sea of green beneath | I |
For me sweet inland birds do cry | H |
Until with joy I hold my breath | J |
But Ocean's harp of wave and stone | K |
Is bird and leaf and stream in one | L |
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Upon my dancing apple sprays | M |
The blackbird whistles melodies | N |
Half through a mellow run he stays | M |
And flashes to a neighbour's trees | N |
He's rare but rarer now would be | O |
The strident pebbles of the sea | O |
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And is it strange that round the shore | P |
The lyric water should rejoice | Q |
Ah no for ever more and more | P |
The happy dead are in its voice | Q |
Majestic poet might I be | O |
As full of song as finely free | O |
Norman Rowland Gale
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