Flood-tide. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDEF GHIHH JKJKK LMLNN OPOPP QAQAA RSTSS| All night the thirsty beach has listening lain | A |
| With patience dumb | B |
| Counting the slow sad moments of her pain | A |
| Now morn has come | B |
| And with the morn the punctual tide again | C |
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| I hear the white battalions down the bay | D |
| Charge with a cheer | E |
| The sun's gold lances prick them on their way | D |
| They plunge they rear | E |
| Foam plumed and snowy pennoned they are here | F |
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| The roused shore her bright hair backward blown | G |
| Stands on the verge | H |
| And waves a smiling welcome beckoning on | I |
| The flying surge | H |
| While round her feet like doves the billows crowd and urge | H |
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| Her glad lips quaff the salt familiar wine | J |
| Her spent urns fill | K |
| All hungering creatures know the sound the sign | J |
| Quiver and thrill | K |
| With glad expectance crowd and banquet at their will | K |
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| I too the rapt contentment join and share | L |
| My tide is full | M |
| There is new happiness in earth in air | L |
| All beautiful | N |
| And fresh the world but now so bare and dull | N |
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| But while we raise the cup of bliss so high | O |
| Thus satisfied | P |
| Another shore beneath a sad far sky | O |
| Waiteth her tide | P |
| And thirsts with sad complainings still denied | P |
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| On earth's remotest bound she sits and waits | Q |
| In doubt and pain | A |
| Our joy is signal for her sad estates | Q |
| Like dull refrain | A |
| Marring our song her sighings rise in vain | A |
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| To each his turn the ebb tide and the flood | R |
| The less the more | S |
| God metes his portions justly out I know | T |
| But still before | S |
| My mind forever floats that pale and grieving shore | S |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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