Written At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCD EEE FFF GHG III AAA JAJ KKK LLM NON IJD PPP QRR STT UVV AAA AAA WXW YYY AAA| What is my quarrel with thee beautiful sea | A |
| That thus I cannot love thy waves or thee | A |
| Or hear thy voice but it tormenteth me | A |
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| Why do I hate thee who art beautiful | B |
| Beyond all beauty when the nights are cool | C |
| And the stars fade because the moon is full | D |
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| Why do I hate thee Thou art new and young | E |
| And life is thine for loving and thy tongue | E |
| Hath tones that I have known and loved and sung | E |
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| Thou hast a smile which would my smiling greet | F |
| Thy brave heart beateth as my own doth beat | F |
| And thou hast tears which should be true and sweet | F |
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| Thou art a creature strong and fair and brave | G |
| Such as I might have given the world to have | H |
| And love and cherish and thou art my slave | G |
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| I have my home in thee Thy arms enfold | I |
| Me all night long and I am rocked and rolled | I |
| And thou art never weary of thy hold | I |
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| Thou art a woman in thy constancy | A |
| And worthy better love than mine could be | A |
| And yet behold I cannot suffer thee | A |
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| If thou wert dumb if thou wert like the sky | J |
| Which has not learned to speak our misery | A |
| In any voice less rude than the wind's cry | J |
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| If thou wert wholly young and didst not know | K |
| The secret of our ancient human woe | K |
| Or if thou knewest it wholly as I know | K |
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| Or yet if thou wert old with all these years | L |
| If thou wert dull to hopes and loves and fears | L |
| If thou wert blind and couldst not see our tears | M |
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| If thou wert bounded by some rocky shore | N |
| And hadst not given thyself thus wholly o'er | O |
| To our poor single selves with all thy store | N |
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| If thou wert not in thy immensity | I |
| A single circle circling with the sky | J |
| Where we must still be centres changelessly | D |
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| If thou wert other than thou art alas | P |
| If thou wert not of water but a mass | P |
| Of formless earth a waveless plain of grass | P |
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| If thou wert shapeless as the mountains are | Q |
| If thou wert clad in some discordant wear | R |
| If thou wert not so blue and trim and fair | R |
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| If thou wert decked with towns and villages | S |
| If there was heard across the silent seas | T |
| The music of church bells upon the breeze | T |
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| If thou wert this or if thou wert not near | U |
| But I could only sit apart and hear | V |
| The beating of thy waves and find it drear | V |
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| But wild and quite unknown and far from me | A |
| Sea if thou couldst no longer be the sea | A |
| Then I could love thee as thou lovest me | A |
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| If thou wouldst have me love thee beautiful sea | A |
| Build up a wall of dark 'twixt thee and me | A |
| Let me not see thee call the night to thee | A |
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| League with the winds rise up and send them driven | W |
| To roll mad clouds about thy back at even | X |
| Make thee a desolation of the heaven | W |
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| Thou shouldst compel me with thy angry voice | Y |
| To choose 'twixt death and thee and at the choice | Y |
| If my cheek grew not pale thou might'st rejoice | Y |
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| And I might love thee oh thou monstrous sea | A |
| But now I cannot love thy waves or thee | A |
| Or bear thy beauty in my misery | A |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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