On Some Shells Found Inland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCEDE| These are my murmur laden shells that keep | A |
| A fresh voice tho' the years be very gray | B |
| The wave that washed their lips and tuned their lay | B |
| Is gone gone with the faded ocean sweep | A |
| The royal tide gray ebb and sunken neap | A |
| And purple midday gone To this hot clay | B |
| Must sing my shells where yet the primal day | B |
| Its roar and rhythm and splendour will not sleep | A |
| What hand shall join them to their proper sea | C |
| If all be gone Shall they forever feel | D |
| Glories undone and world that cannot be | C |
| 'Twere mercy to stamp out this aged wrong | E |
| Dash them to earth and crunch them with the heel | D |
| And make a dust of their seraphic song | E |
Trumbull Stickney
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