Ballade Of A Ship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABADBCBC ABABBCBC E BCBC| Down by the flash of the restless water | A |
| The dim White Ship like a white bird lay | B |
| Laughing at life and the world they sought her | A |
| And out she swung to the silvering bay | B |
| Then off they flew on their roystering way | B |
| And the keen moon fired the light foam flying | C |
| Up from the flood where the faint stars play | B |
| And the bones of the brave in the wave are lying | C |
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| 'T was a king's fair son with a king's fair daughter | A |
| And full three hundred beside they say | B |
| Revelling on for the lone cold slaughter | A |
| So soon to seize them and hide them for aye | D |
| But they danced and they drank and their souls grew gay | B |
| Nor ever they knew of a ghoul's eye spying | C |
| Their splendor a flickering phantom to stray | B |
| Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying | C |
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| Through the mist of a drunken dream they brought her | A |
| This wild white bird for the sea fiend's prey | B |
| The pitiless reef in his hard clutch caught her | A |
| And hurled her down where the dead men stay | B |
| A torturing silence of wan dismay | B |
| Shrieks and curses of mad souls dying | C |
| Then down they sank to slumber and sway | B |
| Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying | C |
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| Envoy | E |
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| Prince do you sleep to the sound alway | B |
| Of the mournful surge and the sea birds' crying | C |
| Or does love still shudder and steel still slay | B |
| Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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