A Shell. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDD BEBE FGFGFG HIHJJ GKGK FLFLL| From what rock hollow'd cavern deep in ocean | A |
| Where jagged columns break the billow's beat | B |
| Whirl'd upward by some wild mid world commotion | A |
| Has this rose tinted shell steer'd to my feet | B |
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| Perchance the wave that bore it has rejoiced | C |
| Above Man's founder'd hopes and shatter'd pride | D |
| Whilst fierce Euroclydon swept trumpet voiced | C |
| Through the frail spars and hurl'd them in the tide | D |
| And the lost seamen floated at its side | D |
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| Ah thus too oft do Woe and Beauty meet | B |
| Swept onward by the self same tide of fate | E |
| The bitter following swift upon the sweet | B |
| Close close together yet how separate | E |
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| Frail waif from the sublime storm shaken sea | F |
| Thou seem'st the childhood toy of some old king | G |
| Who 'mid the shock of nations lights on thee | F |
| And instant backward do his thoughts take wing | G |
| To the unclouded days of infancy | F |
| Then sighing thus away the foolish joy doth fling | G |
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| Forth from thine inner chambers come there out | H |
| Low murmurs of sweet mystic melodies | I |
| Old Neptune's couch winding lone caves about | H |
| In tones that faintly through the waves arise | J |
| And steal to mortal ears in softest sighs | J |
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| The poet dreams of olden ages flowing | G |
| Through the time ocean to the listening soul | K |
| Ages when from each fountain clear and glowing | G |
| Unto the spirit Naiad voices stole | K |
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| And still from earth and sea there ever pealeth | F |
| A voice far softer than leal lover's lay | L |
| Bearing the heart o'er which its true sense stealeth | F |
| Far to diviner dreams of joy away | L |
| And to the wisdom of a riper day | L |
Walter R. Cassels
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