The Unbeliever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEE FGHII JKLAA MFNOO BPQRRR| He sleeps on the top of a mast Bunyan | A |
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| He sleeps on the top of a mast | B |
| with his eyes fast closed | C |
| The sails fall away below him | D |
| like the sheets of his bed | E |
| leaving out in the air of the night the sleeper's head | E |
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| Asleep he was transported there | F |
| asleep he curled | G |
| in a gilded ball on the mast's top | H |
| or climbed inside | I |
| a gilded bird or blindly seated himself astride | I |
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| I am founded on marble pillars | J |
| said a cloud I never move | K |
| See the pillars there in the sea | L |
| Secure in introspection | A |
| he peers at the watery pillars of his reflection | A |
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| A gull had wings under his | M |
| and remarked that the air | F |
| was like marble He said Up here | N |
| I tower through the sky | O |
| for the marble wings on my tower top fly | O |
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| But he sleeps on the top of his mast | B |
| with his eyes closed tight | P |
| The gull inquired into his dream | Q |
| which was I must not fall | R |
| The spangled sea below wants me to fall | R |
| It is hard as diamonds it wants to destroy us all | R |
Elizabeth Bishop
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