From The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFE GHBIJKLMNO PQRSETBUVWXKYZA2B2BC 2D2BA2E2F2 TG2C2H2I2J2JK2L2M2EY N2H2YO2BE2FSP2A2NVQ2 E2OJ2F2Y R2L2SJSBS2T2| All beauty calls you to me and you seem | A |
| Past twice a thousand miles of shifting sea | B |
| To reach me You are as the wind I breathe | C |
| Here on the ship's sun smitten topmost deck | D |
| With only light between the heavens and me | B |
| I feel your spirit and I close my eyes | E |
| Knowing the bright hair blowing in the sun | F |
| The eager whisper and the searching eyes | E |
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| Listen I love you Do not turn your face | G |
| Nor touch me Only stand and watch awhile | H |
| The blue unbroken circle of the sea | B |
| Look far away and let me ease my heart | I |
| Of words that beat in it with broken wing | J |
| Look far away and if I say too much | K |
| Forget that I am speaking Only watch | L |
| How like a gull that sparkling sinks to rest | M |
| The foam crest drifts along a happy wave | N |
| Toward the bright verge the boundary of the world | O |
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| I am so weak a thing praise me for this | P |
| That in some strange way I was strong enough | Q |
| To keep my love unuttered and to stand | R |
| Altho' I longed to kneel to you that night | S |
| You looked at me with ever calling eyes | E |
| Was I not calm And if you guessed my love | T |
| You thought it something delicate and free | B |
| Soft as the sound of fir trees in the wind | U |
| Fleeting as phosphorescent stars in foam | V |
| Yet in my heart there was a beating storm | W |
| Bending my thoughts before it and I strove | X |
| To say too little lest I say too much | K |
| And from my eyes to drive love's happy shame | Y |
| Yet when I heard your name the first far time | Z |
| It seemed like other names to me and I | A2 |
| Was all unconscious as a dreaming river | B2 |
| That nears at last its long predestined sea | B |
| And when you spoke to me I did not know | C2 |
| That to my life's high altar came its priest | D2 |
| But now I know between my God and me | B |
| You stand forever nearer God than I | A2 |
| And in your hands with faith and utter joy | E2 |
| I would that I could lay my woman's soul | F2 |
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| Oh my love | T |
| To whom I cannot come with any gift | G2 |
| Of body or of soul I pass and go | C2 |
| But sometimes when you hear blown back to you | H2 |
| My wistful far off singing touched with tears | I2 |
| Know that I sang for you alone to hear | J2 |
| And that I wondered if the wind would bring | J |
| To him who tuned my heart its distant song | K2 |
| So might a woman who in loneliness | L2 |
| Had borne a child dreaming of days to come | M2 |
| Wonder if it would please its father's eyes | E |
| But long before I ever heard your name | Y |
| Always the undertone's unchanging note | N2 |
| In all my singing had prefigured you | H2 |
| Foretold you as a spark foretells a flame | Y |
| Yet I was free as an untethered cloud | O2 |
| In the great space between the sky and sea | B |
| And might have blown before the wind of joy | E2 |
| Like a bright banner woven by the sun | F |
| I did not know the longing in the night | S |
| You who have waked me cannot give me sleep | P2 |
| All things in all the world can rest but I | A2 |
| Even the smooth brief respite of a wave | N |
| When it gives up its broken crown of foam | V |
| Even that little rest I may not have | Q2 |
| And yet all quiet loves of friends all joy | E2 |
| In all the piercing beauty of the world | O |
| I would give up go blind forevermore | J2 |
| Rather than have God blot from out my soul | F2 |
| Remembrance of your voice that said my name | Y |
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| For us no starlight stilled the April fields | R2 |
| No birds awoke in darkling trees for us | L2 |
| Yet where we walked the city's street that night | S |
| Felt in our feet the singing fire of spring | J |
| And in our path we left a trail of light | S |
| Soft as the phosphorescence of the sea | B |
| When night submerges in the vessel's wake | S2 |
| A heaven of unborn evanescent stars | T2 |
Sara Teasdale
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