Sam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDEDFGEGHAIAJKLK MNONPQRQSTAT UV W| When Sam goes back in memory | A |
| It is to where the sea | A |
| Breaks on the shingle emerald green | B |
| In white foam endlessly | A |
| He says with small brown eye on mine | C |
| I used to keep awake | D |
| And lean from my window in the moon | E |
| Watching those billows break | D |
| And half a million tiny hands | F |
| And eyes like sparks of frost | G |
| Would dance and come tumbling into the moon | E |
| On every breaker tossed | G |
| And all across from star to star | H |
| I've seen the watery sea | A |
| With not a single ship in sight | I |
| Just ocean there and me | A |
| And heard my father snore And once | J |
| As sure as I'm alive | K |
| Out of those wallowing moon flecked waves | L |
| I saw a mermaid dive | K |
| Head and shoulders above the wave | M |
| Plain as I now see you | N |
| Combing her hair now back now front | O |
| Her two eyes peeping through | N |
| Calling me 'Sam ' quietlike 'Sam ' | P |
| But me I never went | Q |
| Making believe I kind of thought | R |
| 'Twas some one else she meant | Q |
| Wonderful lovely there she sat | S |
| Singing the night away | T |
| All in the solitudinous sea | A |
| Of that there lonely bay | T |
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| P'raps and he'd smooth his hairless mouth | U |
| P'raps if 'twere now my son | V |
| P'raps if I heard a voice say 'Sam ' | - |
| Morning would find me gone | W |
Walter De La Mare
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