With A Nantucket Shell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDD EEFFFGGHHH IIJKLLCC EEELLEEME| I SEND thee a shell from the ocean beach | A |
| But listen thou well for my shell hath speech | A |
| Hold to thine ear | B |
| And plain thou lt hear | B |
| Tales of ships | C |
| That were lost in the rips | C |
| Or that sunk on shoals | D |
| Where the bell buoy tolls | D |
| And ever and ever its iron tongue rolls | D |
| In a ceaseless lament for the poor lost souls | D |
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| And a song of the sea | E |
| Has my shell for thee | E |
| The melody in it | F |
| Was hummed at Wauwinet | F |
| And caught at Coatue | F |
| By the gull that flew | G |
| Outside to the ship with its perishing crew | G |
| But the white wings wave | H |
| Where none may save | H |
| And there s never a stone to mark a grave | H |
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| See its sad heart bleeds | I |
| For the sailors needs | I |
| But it bleeds again | J |
| For more mortal pain | K |
| More sorrow and woe | L |
| Than is theirs who go | L |
| With shuddering eyes and whitening lips | C |
| Down in the sea on their shattered ships | C |
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| Thou fearest the sea | E |
| And a tyrant is he | E |
| A tyrant as cruel as tyrant may be | E |
| But though winds fierce blow | L |
| And the rocks lie low | L |
| And the coast be lee | E |
| This I say to thee | E |
| Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore | M |
| Than ever were lost at sea | E |
Charles Harper Webb
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