A Morning Fancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDEE FGHGGIJIJKK LMLMMNONOPP QRQRRSTSTU| I drifted or I seemed to in a boat | A |
| Upon the surface of a shoreless sea | B |
| Whereon no ship nor anything did float | A |
| Save only the frail bark supporting me | B |
| And that it was so shadowy seemed to be | B |
| Almost from out the very vapors wrought | C |
| Of the great ocean underneath its keel | D |
| And all that blue profound appeared as naught | C |
| But thicker sky translucent to reveal | D |
| Miles down whatever through its spaces glided | E |
| Or at the bottom traveled or abided | E |
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| Great cities there I saw of rich and poor | F |
| The palace and the hovel mountains vales | G |
| Forest and field the desert and the moor | H |
| Tombs of the good and wise who'd lived in jails | G |
| And seas of denser fluid white with sails | G |
| Pushed at by currents moving here and there | I |
| And sensible to sight above the flat | J |
| Of that opaquer deep Ah strange and fair | I |
| The nether world that I was gazing at | J |
| With beating heart from that exalted level | K |
| And lest I founder trembling like the devil | K |
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| The cities all were populous men swarmed | L |
| In public places chattered laughed and wept | M |
| And savages their shining bodies warmed | L |
| At fires in primal woods The wild beast leapt | M |
| Upon its prey and slew it as it slept | M |
| Armies went forth to battle on the plain | N |
| So far far down in that unfathomed deep | O |
| The living seemed as silent as the slain | N |
| Nor even the widows could be heard to weep | O |
| One might have thought their shaking was but laughter | P |
| And truly most were married shortly after | P |
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| Above the wreckage of that silent fray | Q |
| Strange fishes swam in circles round and round | R |
| Black double finned and once a little way | Q |
| A bubble rose and burst without a sound | R |
| And a man tumbled out upon the ground | R |
| Lord 'twas an eerie thing to drift apace | S |
| On that pellucid sea beneath black skies | T |
| And o'er the heads of an undrowning race | S |
| And when I woke I said to her surprise | T |
| Who came with chocolate for me to drink it | U |
| 'The atmosphere is deeper than you think it ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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