The Sea And The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCC DEFFFCC GGHHHGG FFIIIGG| Who hath desired the Sea the sight of salt water unbounded | A |
| The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind hounded | A |
| The sleek barrelled swell before storm grey foamless enormous and growing | B |
| Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy eyed hurricane blowing | B |
| His Sea in no showing the same his Sea and the same 'neath each showing | B |
| His Sea as she slackens or thrills | C |
| So and no otherwise so and no otherwise hillmen desire their Hills | C |
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| Who hath desired the Sea the immense and contemptuous surges | D |
| The shudder the stumble the swerve as the star stabbing bow sprit emerges | E |
| The orderly clouds of the Trades the ridged roaring sapphire thereunder | F |
| Unheralded cliff haunting flaws and the headsail's low volleying thunder | F |
| His Sea in no wonder the same his Sea and the same through each wonder | F |
| His Sea as she rages or stills | C |
| So and no otherwise so and no otherwise hillmen desire their Hills | C |
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| Who hath desired the Sea Her menaces swift as her mercies | G |
| The in rolling walls of the fog and the silver winged breeze that disperses | G |
| The unstable mined berg going South and the calvings and groans that declare it | H |
| White water half guessed overside and the moon breaking timely to bare it | H |
| His Sea as his fathers have dared his Sea as his children shall dare it | H |
| His Sea as she serves him or kills | G |
| So and no otherwise so and no otherwise hillmen desire their Hills | G |
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| Who hath desired the Sea Her excellent loneliness rather | F |
| Than forecourts of kings and her outermost pits than the streets where men gather | F |
| Inland among dust under trees inland where the slayer may slay him | I |
| Inland out of reach of her arms and the bosom whereon he must lay him | I |
| His Sea from the first that betrayed at the last that shall never betray him | I |
| His Sea that his being fulfils | G |
| So and no otherwise so and no otherwise hillmen desire their Hills | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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