Defensive Measures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDDEEFGHIJKLL| According to the witches' plan | A |
| All life whose blood did not run true | B |
| Must be excluded from the brew | B |
| Each earthly thing from snail to man | A |
| And every mammal of the sea | C |
| Was for that night an enemy | C |
| And so the smith from ocean hoards | D |
| Had gathered masts and spars and boards | D |
| Of ships with cutlasses and swords | D |
| And countless pikes and spears and made | E |
| With them a towering palisade | E |
| And to the top thereof was sent | F |
| To guard the brew a warrior | G |
| The bravest of the ranks of war | H |
| And deaf to bribe or argument | I |
| To neither shark nor swordfish fell | J |
| The honours of the sentinel | K |
| For of all fighters there the star | L |
| Was Tom the cat from Zanzibar | L |
E. J. Pratt
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