The Flying Dutchman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH IJIJ KLML| Unyielding in the pride of his defiance | A |
| Afloat with none to serve or to command | B |
| Lord of himself at last and all by Science | A |
| He seeks the Vanished Land | B |
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| Alone by the one light of his one thought | C |
| He steers to find the shore from which we came | D |
| Fearless of in what coil he may be caught | E |
| On seas that have no name | D |
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| Into the night he sails and after night | F |
| There is a dawning though there be no sun | G |
| Wherefore with nothing but himself in sight | F |
| Unsighted he sails on | H |
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| At last there is a lifting of the cloud | I |
| Between the flood before him and the sky | J |
| And then though he may curse the Power aloud | I |
| That has no power to die | J |
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| He steers himself away from what is haunted | K |
| By the old ghost of what has been before | L |
| Abandoning as always and undaunted | M |
| One fog walled island more | L |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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