Afloat And Ashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CDEEDFGHGFIJCCJCC KCLCMCNK COOCOOCPPCQRHRQCLLLL CSS TTLL UVWXYY| 'Tumble and rumble and grumble and snort | A |
| Like a whale to starboard a whale to port | A |
| Tumble and rumble and grumble and snort | A |
| And the steamer steams thro' the sea love ' | B |
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| 'I see the ship on the sea love | C |
| I stand alone | D |
| On this rock | E |
| The sea does not shock | E |
| The stone | D |
| The waters around it are swirled | F |
| But under my feet | G |
| I feel it go down | H |
| To where the hemispheres meet | G |
| At the adamant heart of the world | F |
| Oh that the rock would move | I |
| Oh that the rock would roll | J |
| To meet thee over the sea love | C |
| Surely my mighty love | C |
| Should fill it like a soul | J |
| And it should bear me to thee love | C |
| Like a ship on the sea love | C |
| Bear me bear me to thee love ' | - |
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| 'Guns are thundering seas are sundering crowds are wondering | K |
| Low on our lee love | C |
| Over and over the cannon clouds cover brother and lover but over and over | L |
| The whirl wheels trundle the sea love | C |
| And on thro' the loud pealing pomp of her cloud | M |
| The great ship is going to thee love | C |
| Blind to her mark like a world thro' the dark | N |
| Thundering sundering to the crowds wondering | K |
| Thundering ever to thee love ' | - |
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| 'I have come down to thee coming to me love | C |
| I stand I stand | O |
| On the solid sand | O |
| I see thee coming to me love | C |
| The sea runs up to me on the sand | O |
| I start 't is as if thou hadst stretched thine hand | O |
| And touched me thro' the sea love | C |
| I feel as if I must die | P |
| For there's something longs to fly | P |
| Fly and fly to thee love | C |
| As the blood of the flower ere she blows | Q |
| Is beating up to the sun | R |
| And her roots do hold her down | H |
| And it blushes and breaks undone | R |
| In a rose | Q |
| So my blood is beating in me love | C |
| I see thee nigh and nigher | L |
| And my soul leaps up like sudden fire | L |
| My life's in the air | L |
| To meet thee there | L |
| To meet thee coming to me love | C |
| Over the sea | S |
| Coming to me | S |
| Coming and coming to me love ' | - |
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| 'The boats are lowered I leap in first | T |
| Pull boys pull or my heart will burst | T |
| More more lend me an oar | L |
| I'm thro' the breakers I'm on the shore | L |
| I see thee waiting for me love ' | - |
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| 'A sudden storm | U |
| Of sighs and tears | V |
| A clenching arm | W |
| A look of years | X |
| In my bosom a thousand cries | Y |
| A flash like light before my eyes | Y |
| And I am lost in thee love ' | - |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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