A Dead Sea-gull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBA DEFFED GEEEEG HFIIJH KLMMLK| LACK LUSTRE eye and idle wing | A |
| And smirch d breast that skims no more | B |
| White as the foam itself the wave | C |
| Hast thou not even a grave | C |
| Upon the dreary shore | B |
| Forlorn forsaken thing | A |
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| Thou whom the deep seas could not drown | D |
| Nor all the elements affright | E |
| Flashing like thought across the main | F |
| Mocking the hurricane | F |
| Screaming with shrill delight | E |
| When the great ship went down | D |
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| Thee not thy beauty saved nor mirth | G |
| Nor daring nor thy humble lot | E |
| One among thousands in quick haste | E |
| Fate clutched thee as she passed | E |
| Dead how it matters not | E |
| Corrupting earth to earth | G |
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| And not a league from where it lies | H |
| Lie bodies once as free from stain | F |
| And hearts as gay as this sea bird's | I |
| Whom all the preachers' words | I |
| Will ne'er make white again | J |
| Or from the dead to rise | H |
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| Rot pretty bird in harmless clay | K |
| We sing too much poetic woes | L |
| Let us be doing while we can | M |
| Blessed the Christian man | M |
| Who on life's shore seeks those | L |
| Dying of soul decay | K |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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