Seashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKCLMNOP AQRSTUV AWXYZA2A2B2A2C2 D2E2F2UG2H2K A2I2J2K2L2A2D2M2S| I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea | A |
| Say Pilgrim why so late and slow to come | B |
| Am I not always here thy summer home | C |
| Is not my voice thy music morn and eve | D |
| My breath thy healthful climate in the heats | E |
| My touch thy antidote my bay thy bath | F |
| Was ever building like my terraces | G |
| Was ever couch magnificent as mine | H |
| Lie on the warm rock ledges and there learn | I |
| A little hut suffices like a town | J |
| I make your sculptured architecture vain | K |
| Vain beside mine I drive my wedges home | C |
| And carve the coastwise mountain into caves | L |
| Lo here is Rome and Nineveh and Thebes | M |
| Karnak and Pyramid and Giant's Stairs | N |
| Half piled or prostrate and my newest slab | O |
| Older than all thy race | P |
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| Behold the Sea | A |
| The opaline the plentiful and strong | Q |
| Yet beautiful as is the rose in June | R |
| Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July | S |
| Sea full of food the nourisher of kinds | T |
| Purger of earth and medicine of men | U |
| Creating a sweet climate by my breath | V |
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| Washing out harms and griefs from memory | A |
| And in my mathematic ebb and flow | W |
| Giving a hint of that which changes not | X |
| Rich are the sea gods who gives gifts but they | Y |
| They grope the sea for pearls but more than pearls | Z |
| They pluck Force thence and give it to the wise | A2 |
| For every wave is wealth to D dalus | A2 |
| Wealth to the cunning artist who can work | B2 |
| This matchless strength Where shall he find O waves | A2 |
| A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift | C2 |
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| I with my hammer pounding evermore | D2 |
| The rocky coast smite Andes into dust | E2 |
| Strewing my bed and in another age | F2 |
| Rebuild a continent of better men | U |
| Then I unbar the doors my paths lead out | G2 |
| The exodus of nations I dispersed | H2 |
| Men to all shores that front the hoary main | K |
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| I too have arts and sorceries | A2 |
| Illusion dwells forever with the wave | I2 |
| I know what spells are laid Leave me to deal | J2 |
| With credulous and imaginative man | K2 |
| For though he scoop my water in his palm | L2 |
| A few rods off he deems it gems and clouds | A2 |
| Planting strange fruits and sunshine on the shore | D2 |
| I make some coast alluring some lone isle | M2 |
| To distant men who must go there or die | S |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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