The Captain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEDGDGHIHJAKAK LMLMNONOPQPQRSRSJRJR BTBTRURFDDDDNVNVWKWK XYJYBZBZA2NA2N| A LEGEND OF THE NAVY | A |
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| He that only rules by terror | B |
| Doeth grievous wrong | C |
| Deep as hell I count his error | B |
| Let him hear my song | C |
| Brave the Captain was the seamen | D |
| Made a gallant crew | E |
| Gallant sons of English freemen | F |
| Sailors bold and true | E |
| But they hated his oppression | D |
| Stern he was and rash | G |
| So for every light transgression | D |
| Doom'd them to the lash | G |
| Day by day more harsh and cruel | H |
| Seem'd the Captain's mood | I |
| Secret wrath like smother'd fuel | H |
| Burnt in each man's blood | J |
| Yet he hoped to purchase glory | A |
| Hoped to make the name | K |
| Of his vessel great in story | A |
| Wheresoe'er he came | K |
| So they past by capes and islands | L |
| Many a harbor mouth | M |
| Sailing under palmy highlands | L |
| Far within the South | M |
| On a day when they were going | N |
| O'er the lone expanse | O |
| In the north her canvas flowing | N |
| Rose a ship of France | O |
| Then the Captain's color heighten'd | P |
| Joyful came his speech | Q |
| But a cloudy gladness lighten'd | P |
| In the eyes of each | Q |
| 'Chase ' he said the ship flew forward | R |
| And the wind did blow | S |
| Stately lightly went she norward | R |
| Till she near'd the foe | S |
| Then they look'd at him they hated | J |
| Had what they desired | R |
| Mute with folded arms they waited | J |
| Not a gun was fired | R |
| But they heard the foeman's thunder | B |
| Roaring out their doom | T |
| All the air was torn in sunder | B |
| Crashing went the boom | T |
| Spars were splinter'd decks were shatter'd | R |
| Bullets fell like rain | U |
| Over mast and deck were scatter'd | R |
| Blood and brains of men | F |
| Spars were splinter'd decks were broken | D |
| Every mother's son | D |
| Down they dropt no word was spoken | D |
| Each beside his gun | D |
| On the decks as they were lying | N |
| Were their faces grim | V |
| In their blood as they lay dying | N |
| Did they smile on him | V |
| Those in whom he had reliance | W |
| For his noble name | K |
| With one smile of still defiance | W |
| Sold him unto shame | K |
| Shame and wrath his heart confounded | X |
| Pale he turn'd and red | Y |
| Till himself was deadly wounded | J |
| Falling on the dead | Y |
| Dismal error fearful slaughter | B |
| Years have wander'd by | Z |
| Side by side beneath the water | B |
| Crew and Captain lie | Z |
| There the sunlit ocean tosses | A2 |
| O'er them mouldering | N |
| And the lonely seabird crosses | A2 |
| With one waft of the wing | N |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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