Dreams Of The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON ABCB| I know not why I yearn for thee again | A |
| To sail once more upon thy fickle flood | B |
| I'll hear thy waves wash under my death bed | C |
| Thy salt is lodged forever in my blood | B |
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| Yet I have seen thee lash the vessel's sides | D |
| In fury with thy many tailed whip | E |
| And I have seen thee too like Galilee | F |
| When Jesus walked in peace to Simon's ship | E |
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| And I have seen thy gentle breeze as soft | G |
| As summer's when it makes the cornfields run | H |
| And I have seen thy rude and lusty gale | I |
| Make ships show half their bellies to the sun | H |
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| Thou knowest the way to tame the wildest life | J |
| Thou knowest the way to bend the great and proud | K |
| I think of that Armada whose puffed sails | L |
| Greedy and large came swallowing every cloud | K |
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| But I have seen the sea boy young and drowned | M |
| Lying on shore and by thy cruel hand | N |
| A seaweed beard was on his tender chin | O |
| His heaven blue eyes were filled with common sand | N |
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| And yet for all I yearn for thee again | A |
| To sail once more upon thy fickle flood | B |
| I'll hear thy waves wash under my death bed | C |
| Thy salt is lodged forever in my blood | B |
William Henry Davies
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