The Titanic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEE FGHGDII JKJKDLL MNMNDOO| Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel | A |
| Consummate crown of man's device | B |
| Down crashed upon an immobile | C |
| And brainless barrier of ice | B |
| Courage | D |
| The grey gods shoot a laughing lip | E |
| Let not faith founder with the ship | E |
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| We reel before the blows of fate | F |
| Our stout souls stagger at the shock | G |
| Oh there is Something ultimate | H |
| Fixed faster than the living rock | G |
| Courage | D |
| Catastrophe beyond belief | I |
| Harden our hearts to fear and grief | I |
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| The gods upon the Titans shower | J |
| Their high intolerable scorn | K |
| But no god knoweth in what hour | J |
| A new Prometheus may be born | K |
| Courage | D |
| Man to his doom goes driving down | L |
| A crown of thorns is still a crown | L |
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| No power of nature shall withstand | M |
| At last the spirit of mankind | N |
| It is not built upon the sand | M |
| It is not wastrel to the wind | N |
| Courage | D |
| Disaster and destruction tend | O |
| To taller triumph in the end | O |
Aleister Crowley
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