The Sea-lands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH CCJC BKLK CCCC DEFE| Would I were on the sea lands | A |
| Where winds know how to sting | B |
| And in the rocks at midnight | C |
| The lost long murmurs sing | B |
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| Would I were with my first love | D |
| To hear the rush and roar | E |
| Of spume below the doorstep | F |
| And winds upon the door | E |
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| My first love was a fair girl | G |
| With ways forever new | H |
| And hair a sunlight yellow | I |
| And eyes a morning blue | H |
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| The roses have they tarried | C |
| Or are they dun and frayed | C |
| If we had stayed together | J |
| Would love indeed have stayed | C |
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| Ah years are filled with learning | B |
| And days are leaves of change | K |
| And I have met so many | L |
| I knew and found them strange | K |
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| But on the sea lands tumbled | C |
| By winds that sting and blind | C |
| The nights we watched so silent | C |
| Come back come back to mind | C |
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| I mind about my first love | D |
| And hear the rush and roar | E |
| Of spume below the doorstep | F |
| And winds upon the door | E |
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