The Derelict Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLM| North and south with the fickle tides | A |
| With the wind from east to west | B |
| The death ship follows her track of doom | C |
| But finds no port or rest | B |
| - | |
| Day after day the far white sails | D |
| Come up and glimmer and die | E |
| And night by night the twinkling lights | F |
| Crawl down the distant sky | E |
| - | |
| Day after day her black hull lifts | G |
| And sinks with the swell's long roll | H |
| And the white birds cling to her rotting shrouds | I |
| Like prayers of a stricken soul | H |
| - | |
| But ever the death ship keeps her track | J |
| While the ships of men sail on | K |
| For God is her skipper and helmsman too | L |
| And knoweth her port alone | M |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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