After A Lecture On Shelley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIJI K KL MNHN OPOP QRQR BSBS| ONE broad white sail in Spezzia's treacherous bay | A |
| On comes the blast too daring bark beware I | B |
| The cloud has clasped her to it melts away | A |
| The wide waste waters but no sail is there | C |
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| Morning a woman looking on the sea | D |
| Midnight with lamps the long veranda burns | E |
| Come wandering sail they watch they burn for thee | D |
| Suns come and go alas no bark returns | E |
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| And feet are thronging on the pebbly sands | F |
| And torches flaring in the weedy caves | G |
| Where'er the waters lay with icy hands | F |
| The shapes uplifted from their coral graves | G |
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| Vainly they seek the idle quest is o'er | H |
| The coarse dark women with their hanging locks | I |
| And lean wild children gather from the shore | J |
| To the black hovels bedded in the rocks | I |
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| But Love still prayed with agonizing wail | K |
| 'One one last look ye heaving waters yield ' | - |
| Till Ocean clashing in his jointed mail | K |
| Raised the pale burden on his level shield | L |
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| Slow from the shore the sullen waves retire | M |
| His form a nobler element shall claim | N |
| Nature baptized him in ethereal fire | H |
| And Death shall crown him with a wreath of flame | N |
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| Fade mortal semblance never to return | O |
| Swift is the change within thy crimson shroud | P |
| Seal the white ashes in the peaceful urn | O |
| All else has risen in yon silvery cloud | P |
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| Sleep where thy gentle Adonais lies | Q |
| Whose open page lay on thy dying heart | R |
| Both in the smile of those blue vaulted skies | Q |
| Earth's fairest dome of all divinest art | R |
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| Breathe for his wandering soul one passing sigh | B |
| O happier Christian while thine eye grows dim | S |
| In all the mansions of the house on high | B |
| Say not that Mercy has not one for him | S |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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