Sea Grief
Dowell O'Reilly 1865 (Sydney) – 1923 (Leura, Blue Mountains)
Along the serried coast the Southerly raves,
Grey birds scream landward through the distance hoar,
And, swinging from the dim confounded shore,
The everlasting boom of broken waves
Like muffled thunder rolls about the graves
Of all the wonder-lands and lives of yore,
Whose bones asunder bleach for evermore,
In sobbing chasms and under choking caves:
O breaking heart—whose only rest is rage,
White tossing arms, and lips that kiss and part
In lonely dreams of love's wild ecstasy,
Not the mean earth thy suffering can assuage
Nor highest heaven fulfil thy hungry heart,
O fair full-bosomed passionate weeping sea.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBA ABBA CDE CDE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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