The Hidden Tide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK IMNM OPQP RSNS TURU VWXX YRXR XZXZ A2EIE| WITHIN the world a second world | A |
| That circles ceaselessly | B |
| Stars in the sky and sister stars | C |
| Turn in your eyes and see | B |
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| Tides of the sea that rise and fall | D |
| Aheave from Pole to Pole | E |
| And kindred swayings veiled but felt | F |
| That noise along the soul | E |
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| Yon moon noon rich high throned remote | G |
| And pale with pride extreme | H |
| Draws up the sea but what white moon | I |
| Exalts the tide of Dream | H |
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| The Fisher Folk who cast their nets | J |
| In Vision s golden tide | K |
| Oft bring to light misshapen shells | L |
| And nothing worth beside | K |
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| And so their worn hands droop adown | I |
| Their singing throats are dumb | M |
| The Inner Deep withholds its pearls | N |
| Till turn of tide be come | M |
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| But patience wait the good tide turns | O |
| The waters inward set | P |
| And lo behold aleap alive | Q |
| With glowing fish the net | P |
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| O Toilers of the Hidden Seas | R |
| Ye have strange gain and loss | S |
| Dragging the Deeps of Soul for pearls | N |
| And ofttimes netting dross | S |
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| Flushed to the lips with golden light | T |
| And dark with sable gloom | U |
| Thrilled by a thousand melodies | R |
| And silent like a tomb | U |
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| Fierce are the winds across your realm | V |
| As though some Demon veiled | W |
| Had loosed the gales of Spirit land | X |
| To ravage ways unsailed | X |
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| But still sweet hours befall at times | Y |
| Rich lit and full of ease | R |
| The afterglow is like the light | X |
| Of sunset on tired seas | R |
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| And worse perhaps may be the lot | X |
| Of those whose fate is sleep | Z |
| The sodden souls without a tide | X |
| Dense as a rotten deep | Z |
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| Pain paves the way for keener joy | A2 |
| And wondrous thoughts uproll | E |
| When the large moon of Peace looks down | I |
| On high tide in the soul | E |
Roderic Quinn
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