The Voices Of The Ocean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCDC EFFGHIIHIH JKKJLMNLNL OPPOGQQGQG RSSRTUUTUT VWWWXYYXYX ZA2A2ZWB2C2WC2W FD2D2FE2WF2E2G2E2 RMNRH2QQI2QI2 J2K2K2J2L2ZZL2ZL2| All the night the voices of ocean around my sleep | A |
| Their murmuring undulation sleepless kept | B |
| Rocked in a dream I slept | B |
| Till drawn from trances deep | A |
| At the invocation of morning calling strong | C |
| I felt through sanguine eyelids light suffuse | D |
| My brain and woke to a wonder of glad hues | D |
| And over the trembling choir of birds that throng | C |
| Among the tamarisk and the glittering dews | D |
| I heard O sea thy song | C |
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| A charm has lured my feet and I to the beach come down | E |
| The bright abandoned beach the curving strand | F |
| And stripping upon the sand | F |
| I meet the salt spray o'er my body blown | G |
| Embracing swift the jubilant waves that send | H |
| Their triumphing surges shouting to the shores around | I |
| Until in a rushing splendour senses drowned | I |
| The solid earth forgetting haste to spend | H |
| Their ever fresh delight in the glory of swift sound | I |
| And the thunder without end | H |
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| But now from the wave withdrawn in indolent ease | J |
| Again desire upsprings to know thy heart | K |
| I pace by the foam apart | K |
| Or linger in shadow shy removed from any breeze | J |
| Come thou hast more to tell thou hast not done | L |
| I will be patient all day lying in wait to hear | M |
| Upon the warm rock ledges hearkening near | N |
| Of all thy thousand tones to lose not one | L |
| While the shattered surf blows o'er me leaping clear | N |
| To the seaward journeying sun | L |
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| Radiant hurrying delight of crests that dance and advance | O |
| Careless arrogant legions tossing their milky manes | P |
| How the wet light leaps and rains | P |
| From shivered plumes that melt in a lightning glance | O |
| And splendour of airy tresses backward blown | G |
| What shouts of exultation laughter sweet | Q |
| Wail of vanishing hosts and sighs of defeat | Q |
| Irresistible menace and anguished moan | G |
| A thousand voices mingle in triumph and retreat | Q |
| But tell me O sea thine own | G |
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| Surely to happy mirth thou wooest my desire | R |
| Willing is my heart with thy young waves to roam | S |
| Lightly tripping foam | S |
| Ever laughing nearer ever dancing higher | R |
| Sweeter than all glory where the spirit wills | T |
| With heart outpoured in song triumphant as the tide | U |
| With eager open heart ever to ride and ride | U |
| Yet now at height of joy what tumult fills | T |
| Thy rushing strength A sudden gloom invades thy pride | U |
| Resisted an anger thrills | T |
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| Mutinous indignation that heavy Fate defies | V |
| The ignorant rocks that set their sullen jaws | W |
| In thy white flames that never pause | W |
| Rebelliously upleaping my own heart I recognise | W |
| I see the world's embattled towers uplift their height | X |
| The wise distrusting faces of them that trample truth | Y |
| I see the bodies slain of hopeless hoping youth | Y |
| And dark my heart upswells to the vainly echoing fight | X |
| Cries of the helpless tears of idle ruth | Y |
| And the wrong I cannot right | X |
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| Melancholy to thee must I my vows resign | Z |
| The bitterness of my spirit give away | A2 |
| To the bitter broken spray | A2 |
| O down drawn sighing streams with you repine | Z |
| Cover me heavy waters that I may hide my face | W |
| In darkness nor behold the ruined flowers I sowed | B2 |
| Desolately forsaken that so sweetly glowed | C2 |
| Defeated too am I and languish in my place | W |
| And still as glory fades I bear a heavier load | C2 |
| And the desert spreads apace | W |
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| Figures of sorrow now in my remembrance stand | F |
| I see the face of her that her children ask for bread | D2 |
| She turns away her head | D2 |
| The face of him that all day toils on a stony land | F |
| Women that ere the morning to their woe awake | E2 |
| And him that sightless hears the murmur gaily streams | W |
| Knocking weary the pavement that opens not for him | F2 |
| O loud bewailing waves you tremble as you break | E2 |
| And you lift your dirges wild as you vanish into dream | G2 |
| For these and for my sake | E2 |
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| But hark what voice emerges from the lamenting choir | R |
| Surely Love is speaking My heart trembles to hear | M |
| Now no more I fear | N |
| I cast my grief behind I have but one desire | R |
| To give my soul entire nor to count any cost | H2 |
| To pour my heart in passionate unreason sweet | Q |
| To follow and to follow with ever faithful feet | Q |
| The steps adored of Love whatever peril crossed | I2 |
| With bliss or woe extreme my longing to complete | Q |
| In love divinely lost | I2 |
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| Sea was this thy errand Ah but hush | J2 |
| Again the wild lament again the strife | K2 |
| And now in mirth of life | K2 |
| Thy gleeful waters all overriding rush | J2 |
| O have I heard at last For now thy voices call | L2 |
| Mingled and sounding clear in a mighty voice as one | Z |
| In my heart they mingle that rejecteth none | Z |
| Sorrow that no longer shall my head appal | L2 |
| Love my sweetest joy pain that I fear to shun | Z |
| I need I need them all | L2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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