Herman Melville Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFEFFGG HIJHKLLMLLNOPQQPRSSR SSTTT| My towers at last | A |
| What meant the word | B |
| from what acknowledged circuit sprung | C |
| and in the heart and on the tongue | C |
| at sight of few familiar birds | D |
| when seaward his last sail unfurled | E |
| to leeward from the wheel once more | F |
| bloomed the pale crags of haunted shore | F |
| that once more visited notch of world | E |
| and straight he knew as known before | F |
| the Logos in Leviathan s roar | F |
| he deepest sounding with his lead | G |
| who all had fathomed all had said | G |
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| Much loving hero towers indeed | H |
| were those that overhung your log | I |
| with entries of typhoon and fog | J |
| and thunderstone for Adam s breed | H |
| man s warm Sargasso Sea of faith | K |
| dislimned in light by luck or fate | L |
| you for mankind set sail by hate | L |
| and weathered it and with it death | M |
| And now at world s end coasting late | L |
| in dolphined calms beyond the gate | L |
| which Hercules flung down you come | N |
| to the grim rocks that nod you home | O |
| Depth below depth this love of man | P |
| among unnumbered and unknown | Q |
| to mark and make his cryptic own | Q |
| one landfall of all time began | P |
| of all life s hurts to treasure one | R |
| and hug it to the wounded breast | S |
| in this to dedicate the rest | S |
| all injuries received or done | R |
| Your towers again but towers now blest | S |
| your haven in a shoreless west | S |
| o mariner of the human soul | T |
| who in the landmark notched the Pole | T |
| and in the Item loved the Whole | T |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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