Sea-shore Memories Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJIKLIMNIIJA AJOIPQA ARAIPSTCIAQA UVP PWAXYP VZA2B2O IPIGKM FC2I RAII ZF FD2AIIIAE2A IP F2G2II ZH2 TH2 MIC I2H2 IJ2H2 K2FZP TOL2A IM2 D2N2O2P2 IIIK2II FPIIVM2I H2J2M2M2 E2IGI Q2B IIR2C S2T2 U2IV2IC2 AAAAAH2AMABAAAAAW2AH 2 BIAM2ABOUT of the cradle endlessly rocking | A |
Out of the mocking bird's throat the musical shuttle | B |
Out of the Ninth month midnight | C |
Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond where the child | D |
leaving his bed wander'd alone bare headed barefoot | E |
Down from the shower'd halo | F |
Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they | G |
were alive | H |
Out from the patches of briers and blackberries | I |
From the memories of the bird that chanted to me | J |
From your memories sad brother from the fitful risings and fallings | I |
I heard | K |
From under that yellow half moon late risen and swollen as if with | L |
tears | I |
From those beginning notes of sickness and love there in the | M |
transparent mist | N |
From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease | I |
From the myriad thence arous'd words | I |
From the word stronger and more delicious than any | J |
From such as now they start the scene revisiting | A |
As a flock twittering rising or overhead passing | A |
Borne hither ere all eludes me hurriedly | J |
A man yet by these tears a little boy again | O |
Throwing myself on the sand confronting the waves | I |
I chanter of pains and joys uniter of here and hereafter | P |
Taking all hints to use them but swiftly leaping beyond them | Q |
A reminiscence sing | A |
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Once Paumanok | A |
When the snows had melted when the lilac scent was in the air and | R |
the Fifth month grass was growing | A |
Up this sea shore in some briers | I |
Two guests from Alabama two together | P |
And their nest and four light green eggs spotted with brown | S |
And every day the he bird to and fro near at hand | T |
And every day the she bird crouch'd on her nest silent with bright | C |
eyes | I |
And every day I a curious boy never too close never disturbing | A |
them | Q |
Cautiously peering absorbing translating | A |
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Shine shine shine | U |
Pour down your warmth great Sun | V |
While we bask we two together | P |
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Two together | P |
Winds blow South or winds blow North | W |
Day come white or night come black | A |
Home or rivers and mountains from home | X |
Singing all time minding no time | Y |
While we two keep together | P |
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Till of a sudden | V |
May be kill'd unknown to her mate | Z |
One forenoon the she bird crouch'd not on the nest | A2 |
Nor return'd that afternoon nor the next | B2 |
Nor ever appear'd again | O |
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And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the sea | I |
And at night under the full of the moon in calmer weather | P |
Over the hoarse surging of the sea | I |
Or flitting from brier to brier by day | G |
I saw I heard at intervals the remaining one the he bird | K |
The solitary guest from Alabama | M |
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Blow blow blow | F |
Blow up sea winds along Paumanok's shore | C2 |
I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me | I |
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Yes when the stars glisten'd | R |
All night long on the prong of a moss scallop'd stake | A |
Down almost amid the slapping waves | I |
Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears | I |
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He call'd on his mate | Z |
He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men know | F |
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Yes my brother I know | F |
The rest might not but I have treasur'd every note | D2 |
For once and more than once dimly down to the beach gliding | A |
Silent avoiding the moonbeams blending myself with the shadows | I |
Recalling now the obscure shapes the echoes the sounds and sights | I |
after their sorts | I |
The white arms out in the breakers tirelessly tossing | A |
I with bare feet a child the wind wafting my hair | E2 |
Listen'd long and long | A |
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Listen'd to keep to sing now translating the notes | I |
Following you my brother | P |
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Soothe soothe soothe | F2 |
Close on its wave soothes the wave behind | G2 |
And again another behind embracing and lapping every one close | I |
But my love soothes not me not me | I |
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Low hangs the moon it rose late | Z |
O it is lagging O I think it is heavy with love with love | H2 |
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O madly the sea pushes pushes upon the land | T |
With love with love | H2 |
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O night do I not see my love fluttering out there among the | M |
breakers | I |
What is that little black thing I see there in the white | C |
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Loud loud loud | I2 |
Loud I call to you my love | H2 |
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High and clear I shoot my voice over the waves | I |
Surely you must know who is here is here | J2 |
You must know who I am my love | H2 |
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Low hanging moon | K2 |
What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow | F |
O it is the shape the shape of my mate | Z |
O moon do not keep her from me any longer | P |
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Land land O land | T |
Whichever way I turn O I think you could give me my mate back again | O |
if you only would | L2 |
For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look | A |
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O rising stars | I |
Perhaps the one I want so much will rise will rise with some of you | M2 |
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O throat O trembling throat | D2 |
Sound clearer through the atmosphere | N2 |
Pierce the woods the earth | O2 |
Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want | P2 |
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Shake out carols | I |
Solitary here the night's carols | I |
Carols of lonesome love Death's carols | I |
Carols under that lagging yellow waning moon | K2 |
O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea | I |
O reckless despairing carols | I |
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But soft sink low | F |
Soft let me just murmur | P |
And do you wait a moment you husky noised sea | I |
For somewhere I believe I heard my mate responding to me | I |
So faint I must be still be still to listen | V |
But not altogether still for then she might not come immediately to | M2 |
me | I |
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Hither my love | H2 |
Here I am Here | J2 |
With this just sustain'd note I announce myself to you | M2 |
This gentle call is for you my love for you | M2 |
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Do not be decoy'd elsewhere | E2 |
That is the whistle of the wind it is not my voice | I |
That is the fluttering the fluttering of the spray | G |
Those are the shadows of leaves | I |
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O darkness O in vain | Q2 |
O I am very sick and sorrowful | B |
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O brown halo in the sky near the moon drooping upon the sea | I |
O troubled reflection in the sea | I |
O throat O throbbing heart | R2 |
O all and I singing uselessly uselessly all the night | C |
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Yet I murmur murmur on | S2 |
O murmurs you yourselves make me continue to sing I know not why | T2 |
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O past O life O songs of joy | U2 |
In the air in the woods over fields | I |
Loved loved loved loved loved | V2 |
But my love no more no more with me | I |
We two together no more | C2 |
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The aria sinking | A |
All else continuing the stars shining | A |
The winds blowing the notes of the bird continuous echoing | A |
With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning | A |
On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling | A |
The yellow half moon enlarged sagging down drooping the face of | H2 |
the sea almost touching | A |
The boy extatic with his bare feet the waves with his hair the | M |
atmosphere dallying | A |
The love in the heart long pent now loose now at last tumultuously | B |
bursting | A |
The aria's meaning the ears the Soul swiftly depositing | A |
The strange tears down the cheeks coursing | A |
The colloquy there the trio each uttering | A |
The undertone the savage old mother incessantly crying | A |
To the boy's Soul's questions sullenly timing some drown'd secret | W2 |
hissing | A |
To the outsetting bard of love | H2 |
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Demon or bird said the boy's soul | B |
Is it indeed toward your mate you sing or is it mostly to me | I |
For I that was a child my tongue's use sleeping | A |
Now I have heard you | M2 |
Now in a moment I know what I am for I awake | A |
And al | B |
Walt Whitman
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