Shell-music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEEFAAGGCCDHHF AAIICCDHHFAAJJKKDCCF| YOU with the shell to your ear | A |
| What do you hear | A |
| Slim and so white | B |
| In the moonlight | B |
| 'Oh I hear surging and shouting and singing | C |
| The sea folk at market their little bells ringing | C |
| The tall weeds about them the green world above | D |
| Oh blithe are the pedlars of ribbons and laces | E |
| Yet blither and sweeter upon the wide spaces | E |
| The footfalls of Love ' | F |
| You with the shell to your ear | A |
| What do you hear | A |
| Waves at your feet | G |
| White and so sweet | G |
| 'Oh I hear cooing and kissing and cooing | C |
| The sound of sea folk in their coral groves wooing | C |
| The red branches round them the green world above | D |
| Oh sweet are the songs of the witching sea daughters | H |
| But sweeter far sweeter upon the wide waters | H |
| The footfalls of Love ' | F |
| You with the shell to your ear | A |
| What do you hear | A |
| Large eyes aglow | I |
| Forehead of snow | I |
| 'Oh I hear shouting and sobbing and sighing | C |
| The sounds of the sea folk in battle rage vieing | C |
| The torn weeds about them the green world above | D |
| The merman may shout as he stumbles and slaughters | H |
| But ever and ever I hear on the waters | H |
| The footfalls of Love ' | F |
| You with the shell to your ear | A |
| What do you hear | A |
| As you stand there | J |
| Pale and so fair | J |
| 'Oh as frost on the seaways the foam spaces glisten | K |
| My heart is the shell to its echoes I listen | K |
| Red petals rose petals around and above | D |
| Oh sweeter far sweeter than little bells ringing | C |
| Or market men shouting or mermaidens singing | C |
| The footfalls of Love ' | F |
Roderic Quinn
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