Sun And Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKFKF| As I look from the isle o'er its billows of green | A |
| To the billows of foam crested blue | B |
| Yon bark that afar in the distance is seen | A |
| Half dreaming my eyes will pursue | B |
| Now dark in the shadow she scatters the spray | C |
| As the chaff in the stroke of the flail | D |
| Now white as the sea gull she flies on her way | C |
| The sun gleaming bright on her sail | D |
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| Yet her pilot is thinking of dangers to shun | E |
| Of breakers that whiten and roar | F |
| How little he cares if in shadow or sun | E |
| They see him who gaze from the shore | F |
| He looks to the beacon that looms from the reef | G |
| To the rock that is under his lee | H |
| As he drifts on the blast like a wind wafted leaf | G |
| O'er the gulfs of the desolate sea | H |
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| Thus drifting afar to the dim vaulted caves | I |
| Where life and its ventures are laid | J |
| The dreamers who gaze while we battle the waves | I |
| May see us in sunshine or shade | J |
| Yet true to our course though the shadows grow dark | K |
| We'll trim our broad sail as before | F |
| And stand by the rudder that governs the bark | K |
| Nor ask how we look from the shore | F |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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