The Albatross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKA LMJG| Often to pass the time on board the crew | A |
| will catch an albatross one of those big birds | B |
| which nonchalently chaperone a ship | C |
| across the bitter fathoms of the sea | D |
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| Tied to the deck this sovereign of space | E |
| as if embarrassed by its clumsiness | F |
| pitiably lets its great white wings | G |
| drag at its sides like a pair of unshipped oars | H |
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| How weak and awkward even comical | I |
| this traveller but lately so adoit | J |
| one deckhand sticks a pipestem in its beak | K |
| another mocks the cripple that once flew | A |
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| The Poet is like this monarch of the clouds | L |
| riding the storm above the marksman's range | M |
| exiled on the ground hooted and jeered | J |
| he cannot walk because of his great wings | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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