I: In A Great House By The Sea I Sat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBCDECECE| In a great house by the wide Sea I sat | A |
| And down slow fleets and waves that never cease | B |
| Looked back to the first keels of War and Peace | B |
| I saw the Ark what time the shoreless flat | A |
| Began to rock to rising Ararat | C |
| Or Argo surging home with templed Greece | B |
| To leeward while mast high the lurching fleece | B |
| Swung morn from deep to deep Then in a plat | C |
| Of tamarisk a bird called me When again | D |
| My soul looked forth I ponder'd not the main | E |
| Of waters but of time and from our fast | C |
| Sure Now with Pagan joy beheld the pain | E |
| Of tossing heroes on the triremed Past | C |
| Obtest the festive Gods and silent stars in vain | E |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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