Sea Surface Full Of Clouds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCB DEE FGH IJK JEL MKL A BCB DEE FIE HNN HHO KKO A BCB DEE KKP QKP KBL RKL S BTB DEE UKE SVW XBM EKM S BSB DEE SYP ZSE A2B2L SLL

IA
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In that November off TehuantepecB
The slopping of the sea grew still one nightC
And in the morning summer hued the deckB
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And made one think of rosy chocolateD
And gilt umbrellas Paradisal greenE
Gave suavity to the perplexed machineE
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Of ocean which like limpid water layF
Who then in that ambrosial latitudeG
Out of the light evolved the morning bloomsH
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Who then evolved the sea blooms from the cloudsI
Diffusing balm in that Pacific calmJ
C' eacute tait mon enfant mon bijou mon acirc meK
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The sea clouds whitened far below the calmJ
And moved as blooms move in the swimming greenE
And in its watery radiance while the hueL
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Of heaven in an antique reflection rolledM
Round those flotillas And sometimes the seaK
Poured brilliant iris on the glistening blueL
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IIA
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In that November off TehuantepecB
The slopping of the sea grew still one nightC
At breakfast jelly yellow streaked the deckB
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And made one think of chop house chocolateD
And sham umbrellas And a sham like greenE
Capped summer seeming on the tense machineE
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Of ocean which in sinister flatness layF
Who then beheld the rising of the cloudsI
That strode submerged in that malevolent sheenE
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Who saw the mortal massives of the bloomsH
Of water moving on the water floorN
C' eacute tait mon fr egrave re du ciel ma vie mon orN
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The gongs rang loudly as the windy boomsH
Hoo hooed it in the darkened ocean bloomsH
The gongs grew still And then blue heaven spreadO
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Its crystalline pendentives on the seaK
And the macabre of the water gloomsK
In an enormous undulation fledO
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IIIA
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In that November off TehuantepecB
The slopping of the sea grew still one nightC
And a pale silver patterned on the deckB
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And made one think of porcelain chocolateD
And pied umbrellas An uncertain greenE
Piano polished held the tranced machineE
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Of ocean as a prelude holds and holdsK
Who seeing silver petals of white bloomsK
Unfolding in the water feeling sureP
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Of the milk within the saltiest spurge heard thenQ
The sea unfolding in the sunken cloudsK
Oh C' eacute tait mon extase et mon amourP
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So deeply sunken were they that the shroudsK
The shrouding shadows made the petals blackB
Until the rolling heaven made them blueL
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A blue beyond the rainy hyacinthR
And smiting the crevasses of the leavesK
Deluged the ocean with a sapphire blueL
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IVS
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In that November off TehuantepecB
The night long slopping of the sea grew stillT
A mallow morning dozed upon the deckB
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And made one think of musky chocolateD
And frail umbrellas A too fluent greenE
Suggested malice in the dry machineE
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Of ocean pondering dank stratagemU
Who then beheld the figures of the cloudsK
Like blooms secluded in the thick marineE
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Like blooms Like damasks that were shaken offS
From the loosed girdles in the spangling mustV
C' eacute tait ma foi la nonchalance divineW
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The nakedness would rise and suddenly turnX
Salt masks of beard and mouths of bellowingB
Would But more suddenly the heaven rolledM
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Its bluest sea clouds in the thinking greenE
And the nakedness became the broadest bloomsK
Mile mallows that a mallow sun cajoledM
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VS
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In that November off TehuantepecB
Night stilled the slopping of the seaS
The day came bowing and voluble upon the deckB
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Good clown One thought of Chinese chocolateD
And large umbrellas And a motley greenE
Followed the drift of the obese machineE
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Of ocean perfected in indolenceS
What pistache one ingenious and drollY
Beheld the sovereign clouds as juggleryP
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And the sea as turquoise turbaned Sambo neatZ
At tossing saucers cloudy conjuring seaS
C' eacute tait mon esprit b acirc tard l'ignominieE
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The sovereign clouds came clustering The conchA2
Of loyal conjuration trumped The windB2
Of green blooms turning crisped the motley hueL
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To clearing opalescence Then the seaS
And heaven rolled as one and from the twoL
Came fresh transfigurings of freshest blueL

Wallace Stevens



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