The Stormy Petrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGAAHHII JJKKLLMMII| A THOUSAND miles from land are we | A |
| Tossing about on the roaring sea | A |
| From billow to bounding billow cast | B |
| Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast | B |
| The sails are scatter d abroad like weeds | C |
| The strong masts shake like quivering reeds | C |
| The mighty cables and iron chains | D |
| The hull which all earthly strength disdains | D |
| They strain and they crack and hearts like stone | E |
| Their natural hard proud strength disown | E |
| - | |
| Up and down Up and down | F |
| From the base of the wave to the billow s crown | F |
| And midst the flashing and feathery foam | G |
| The Stormy Petrel finds a home | G |
| A home if such a place may be | A |
| For her who lives on the wide wide sea | A |
| On the craggy ice in the frozen air | H |
| And only seeketh her rocky lair | H |
| To warm her young and to teach them spring | I |
| At once o er the waves on their stormy wing | I |
| - | |
| O er the Deep O er the Deep | J |
| Where the whale and the shark and the sword fish sleep | J |
| Outflying the blast and the driving rain | K |
| The Petrel telleth her tale in vain | K |
| For the mariner curseth the warning bird | L |
| Who bringeth him news of the storms unheard | L |
| Ah thus does the prophet of good or ill | M |
| Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still | M |
| Yet he ne er falters So Petrel spring | I |
| Once more o er the waves on thy stormy wing | I |
Barry Cornwall
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