Cadland,[1] Southampton River. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNBOPQRS TAUVWXYZAA2B2SC2D2E2 F2G2H2I2J2K2L2M2N2O2 P2JO2| If ever sea maid from her coral cave | A |
| Beneath the hum of the great surge has loved | B |
| To pass delighted from her green abode | C |
| And seated on a summer bank to sing | D |
| No earthly music in a spot like this | E |
| The bard might feign he heard her as she dried | F |
| Her golden hair yet dripping from the main | G |
| In the slant sunbeam | H |
| So the pensive bard | I |
| Might image warmed by this enchanting scene | J |
| The ideal form but though such things are not | K |
| He who has ever felt a thought refined | L |
| He who has wandered on the sea of life | M |
| Forming delightful visions of a home | N |
| Of beauty and repose he who has loved | B |
| With filial warmth his country will not pass | O |
| Without a look of more than tenderness | P |
| On all the scene from where the pensile birch | Q |
| Bends on the bank amid the clustered group | R |
| Of the dark hollies to the woody shore | S |
| That steals diminished to the distant spires | T |
| Of Hampton crowning the long lucid wave | A |
| White in the sun beneath the forest shade | U |
| Full shines the frequent sail like Vanity | V |
| As she goes onward in her glittering trim | W |
| Amid the glances of life's transient morn | X |
| Calling on all to view her | Y |
| Vectis there | Z |
| That slopes its greensward to the lambent wave | A |
| And shows through softest haze its woods and domes | A2 |
| With gray St Catherine's creeping to the sky | B2 |
| Seems like a modest maid who charms the more | S |
| Concealing half her beauties | C2 |
| To the East | D2 |
| Proud yet complacent on its subject realm | E2 |
| With masts innumerable thronged and hulls | F2 |
| Seen indistinct but formidable mark | G2 |
| Albion's vast fleet that like the impatient storm | H2 |
| Waits but the word to thunder and flash death | I2 |
| On him who dares approach to violate | J2 |
| The shores and living scenes that smile secure | K2 |
| Beneath its dragon watch | L2 |
| Long may they smile | M2 |
| And long majestic Albion while the sound | N2 |
| From East to West from Albis to the Po | O2 |
| Of dark contention hurtles may'st thou rest | P2 |
| As calm and beautiful this sylvan scene | J |
| Looks on the refluent wave that steals below | O2 |
William Lisle Bowles
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