In The Binnacle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCBCB DDBEEEBEB| The Church's compass if you please | A |
| Has two or three or more degrees | A |
| Of variation | B |
| And many a soul has gone to grief | C |
| On this or that or t'other reef | C |
| Through faith unreckoning or brief | C |
| Miscalculation | B |
| Misguidance is of perils chief | C |
| To navigation | B |
| - | |
| The obsequious thing makes too you'll mark | D |
| Obeisance through a little arc | D |
| Of declination | B |
| For Satan fearing witches drew | E |
| From Death's pale horse one day a shoe | E |
| And nailed it to his door to undo | E |
| Their machination | B |
| Since then the needle dips to woo | E |
| His habitation | B |
Ambrose Bierce
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