Sea-shore Memories Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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OUT of the cradle endlessly rockingA
Out of the mocking bird's throat the musical shuttleB
Out of the Ninth month midnightC
Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond where the childD
leaving his bed wander'd alone bare headed barefootE
Down from the shower'd haloF
Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if theyG
were aliveH
Out from the patches of briers and blackberriesI
From the memories of the bird that chanted to meJ
From your memories sad brother from the fitful risings and fallingsI
I heardK
From under that yellow half moon late risen and swollen as if withL
tearsI
From those beginning notes of sickness and love there in theM
transparent mistN
From the thousand responses of my heart never to ceaseI
From the myriad thence arous'd wordsI
From the word stronger and more delicious than anyJ
From such as now they start the scene revisitingA
As a flock twittering rising or overhead passingA
Borne hither ere all eludes me hurriedlyJ
A man yet by these tears a little boy againO
Throwing myself on the sand confronting the wavesI
I chanter of pains and joys uniter of here and hereafterP
Taking all hints to use them but swiftly leaping beyond themQ
A reminiscence singA
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Once PaumanokA
When the snows had melted when the lilac scent was in the air andR
the Fifth month grass was growingA
Up this sea shore in some briersI
Two guests from Alabama two togetherP
And their nest and four light green eggs spotted with brownS
And every day the he bird to and fro near at handT
And every day the she bird crouch'd on her nest silent with brightC
eyesI
And every day I a curious boy never too close never disturbingA
themQ
Cautiously peering absorbing translatingA
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Shine shine shineU
Pour down your warmth great SunV
While we bask we two togetherP
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Two togetherP
Winds blow South or winds blow NorthW
Day come white or night come blackA
Home or rivers and mountains from homeX
Singing all time minding no timeY
While we two keep togetherP
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Till of a suddenV
May be kill'd unknown to her mateZ
One forenoon the she bird crouch'd not on the nestA2
Nor return'd that afternoon nor the nextB2
Nor ever appear'd againO
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And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the seaI
And at night under the full of the moon in calmer weatherP
Over the hoarse surging of the seaI
Or flitting from brier to brier by dayG
I saw I heard at intervals the remaining one the he birdK
The solitary guest from AlabamaM
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Blow blow blowF
Blow up sea winds along Paumanok's shoreC2
I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to meI
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Yes when the stars glisten'dR
All night long on the prong of a moss scallop'd stakeA
Down almost amid the slapping wavesI
Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tearsI
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He call'd on his mateZ
He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men knowF
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Yes my brother I knowF
The rest might not but I have treasur'd every noteD2
For once and more than once dimly down to the beach glidingA
Silent avoiding the moonbeams blending myself with the shadowsI
Recalling now the obscure shapes the echoes the sounds and sightsI
after their sortsI
The white arms out in the breakers tirelessly tossingA
I with bare feet a child the wind wafting my hairE2
Listen'd long and longA
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Listen'd to keep to sing now translating the notesI
Following you my brotherP
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Soothe soothe sootheF2
Close on its wave soothes the wave behindG2
And again another behind embracing and lapping every one closeI
But my love soothes not me not meI
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Low hangs the moon it rose lateZ
O it is lagging O I think it is heavy with love with loveH2
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O madly the sea pushes pushes upon the landT
With love with loveH2
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O night do I not see my love fluttering out there among theM
breakersI
What is that little black thing I see there in the whiteC
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Loud loud loudI2
Loud I call to you my loveH2
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High and clear I shoot my voice over the wavesI
Surely you must know who is here is hereJ2
You must know who I am my loveH2
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Low hanging moonK2
What is that dusky spot in your brown yellowF
O it is the shape the shape of my mateZ
O moon do not keep her from me any longerP
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Land land O landT
Whichever way I turn O I think you could give me my mate back againO
if you only wouldL2
For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I lookA
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O rising starsI
Perhaps the one I want so much will rise will rise with some of youM2
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O throat O trembling throatD2
Sound clearer through the atmosphereN2
Pierce the woods the earthO2
Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I wantP2
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Shake out carolsI
Solitary here the night's carolsI
Carols of lonesome love Death's carolsI
Carols under that lagging yellow waning moonK2
O under that moon where she droops almost down into the seaI
O reckless despairing carolsI
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But soft sink lowF
Soft let me just murmurP
And do you wait a moment you husky noised seaI
For somewhere I believe I heard my mate responding to meI
So faint I must be still be still to listenV
But not altogether still for then she might not come immediately toM2
meI
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Hither my loveH2
Here I am HereJ2
With this just sustain'd note I announce myself to youM2
This gentle call is for you my love for youM2
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Do not be decoy'd elsewhereE2
That is the whistle of the wind it is not my voiceI
That is the fluttering the fluttering of the sprayG
Those are the shadows of leavesI
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O darkness O in vainQ2
O I am very sick and sorrowfulB
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O brown halo in the sky near the moon drooping upon the seaI
O troubled reflection in the seaI
O throat O throbbing heartR2
O all and I singing uselessly uselessly all the nightC
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Yet I murmur murmur onS2
O murmurs you yourselves make me continue to sing I know not whyT2
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O past O life O songs of joyU2
In the air in the woods over fieldsI
Loved loved loved loved lovedV2
But my love no more no more with meI
We two together no moreC2
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The aria sinkingA
All else continuing the stars shiningA
The winds blowing the notes of the bird continuous echoingA
With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaningA
On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustlingA
The yellow half moon enlarged sagging down drooping the face ofH2
the sea almost touchingA
The boy extatic with his bare feet the waves with his hair theM
atmosphere dallyingA
The love in the heart long pent now loose now at last tumultuouslyB
burstingA
The aria's meaning the ears the Soul swiftly depositingA
The strange tears down the cheeks coursingA
The colloquy there the trio each utteringA
The undertone the savage old mother incessantly cryingA
To the boy's Soul's questions sullenly timing some drown'd secretW2
hissingA
To the outsetting bard of loveH2
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Demon or bird said the boy's soulB
Is it indeed toward your mate you sing or is it mostly to meI
For I that was a child my tongue's use sleepingA
Now I have heard youM2
Now in a moment I know what I am for I awakeA
And alB

Walt Whitman



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