A Hymn Of The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLFEMNOFPQ RSF DTFTSUVWXYZSSA2B2C2 D2E2F2G2H2TI2J2K2L2S M2FN2O2P2SQ2R2N2S2ST 2U2V2W2| The sea is mighty but a mightier sways | A |
| His restless billows Thou whose hands have scooped | B |
| His boundless gulfs and built his shore thy breath | C |
| That moved in the beginning o'er his face | D |
| Moves o'er it evermore The obedient waves | E |
| To its strong motion roll and rise and fall | F |
| Still from that realm of rain thy cloud goes up | G |
| As at the first to water the great earth | H |
| And keep her valleys green A hundred realms | I |
| Watch its broad shadow warping on the wind | J |
| And in the dropping shower with gladness hear | K |
| Thy promise of the harvest I look forth | L |
| Over the boundless blue where joyously | F |
| The bright crests of innumerable waves | E |
| Glance to the sun at once as when the hands | M |
| Of a great multitude are upward flung | N |
| In acclamation I behold the ships | O |
| Gliding from cape to cape from isle to isle | F |
| Or stemming toward far lands or hastening home | P |
| From the old world It is thy friendly breeze | Q |
| That bears them with the riches of the land | R |
| And treasure of dear lives till in the port | S |
| The shouting seaman climbs and furls the sail | F |
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| But who shall bide thy tempest who shall face | D |
| The blast that wakes the fury of the sea | T |
| Oh God thy justice makes the world turn pale | F |
| When on the armed fleet that royally | T |
| Bears down the surges carrying war to smite | S |
| Some city or invade some thoughtless realm | U |
| Descends the fierce tornado The vast hulks | V |
| Are whirled like chaff upon the waves the sails | W |
| Fly rent like webs of gossamer the masts | X |
| Are snapped asunder downward from the decks | Y |
| Downward are slung into the fathomless gulf | Z |
| Their cruel engines and their hosts arrayed | S |
| In trappings of the battle field are whelmed | S |
| By whirlpools or dashed dead upon the rocks | A2 |
| Then stand the nations still with awe and pause | B2 |
| A moment from the bloody work of war | C2 |
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| These restless surges eat away the shores | D2 |
| Of earth's old continents the fertile plain | E2 |
| Welters in shallows headlands crumble down | F2 |
| And the tide drifts the sea sand in the streets | G2 |
| Of the drowned city Thou meanwhile afar | H2 |
| In the green chambers of the middle sea | T |
| Where broadest spread the waters and the line | I2 |
| Sinks deepest while no eye beholds thy work | J2 |
| Creator thou dost teach the coral worm | K2 |
| To lay his mighty reefs From age to age | L2 |
| He builds beneath the waters till at last | S |
| His bulwarks overtop the brine and check | M2 |
| The long wave rolling from the southern pole | F |
| To break upon Japan Thou bid'st the fires | N2 |
| That smoulder under ocean heave on high | O2 |
| The new made mountains and uplift their peaks | P2 |
| A place of refuge for the storm driven bird | S |
| The birds and wafting billows plant the rifts | Q2 |
| With herb and tree sweet fountains gush sweet airs | R2 |
| Ripple the living lakes that fringed with flowers | N2 |
| Are gathered in the hollows Thou dost look | S2 |
| On thy creation and pronounce it good | S |
| Its valleys glorious with their summer green | T2 |
| Praise thee in silent beauty and its woods | U2 |
| Swept by the murmuring winds of ocean join | V2 |
| The murmuring shores in a perpetual hymn | W2 |
William Cullen Bryant
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