Gulls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEGH IAIIA ABAAB| When the mist drives past and the wind blows high | A |
| And the harbour lights are dim | B |
| See where they circle and dip and fly | A |
| The grey free lances of wind and sky | A |
| To the water's distant rim | B |
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| Like spirits possessed of a fierce delight | C |
| A courage that cannot fail | D |
| They face the breakers they face the night | C |
| The mad storm horses are silvery white | C |
| They ride through the bitter gale | D |
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| They seem like the souls of the long long lost | E |
| Who breasted the ocean main | F |
| Vikings whose vessels were tempest tossed | E |
| Voyagers who sailed whatever the cost | G |
| And never came home again | H |
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| Or stranger and wilder fancy it seems | I |
| As I hear their wind torn cry | A |
| No birds fly there through the sun's last gleams | I |
| But the wraiths of hopes the ghosts of dreams | I |
| That the old sea gods saw die | A |
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| When the mist drives past and the wind blows high | A |
| And the harbour lights are dim | B |
| See where they circle and dip and fly | A |
| The grey free lances of wind and sky | A |
| To the far horizon's rim | B |
Virna Sheard
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