X. On Dover Cliffs. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEFGHHGIION these white cliffs that calm above the flood | A |
Rear their o'er shadowing heads and at their feet | B |
Scarce hear the surge that has for ages beat | B |
Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood | C |
And whilst the lifted murmur met his ear | D |
And o'er the distant billows the still Eve | E |
Sail'd slow has thought of all his heart must leave | E |
To morrow of the friends he lov'd most dear | F |
Of social scenes from which he wept to part | G |
But if like me he knew how fruitless all | H |
The thoughts that would full fain the past recall | H |
Soon would he quell the risings of his heart | G |
And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide | I |
The World his country and his God his guide | I |
William Lisle Bowles
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