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 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 |
| - | |
| 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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