Casabianca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFG HIHI JKJL MNMN OHOH PQPQ RSRS NTNT| The boy stood on the burning deck | A |
| Whence all but he had fled | B |
| The flame that lit the battle's wreck | A |
| Shone round him o'er the dead | B |
| Yet beautiful and bright he stood | C |
| As born to rule the storm | D |
| A creature of heroic blood | E |
| A proud though childlike form | D |
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| The flames roll'd on he would not go | F |
| Without his father's word | G |
| That father faint in death below | F |
| His voice no longer heard | G |
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| He call'd aloud Say father say | H |
| If yet my task is done | I |
| He knew not that the chieftain lay | H |
| Unconscious of his son | I |
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| Speak father once again he cried | J |
| If I may yet be gone | K |
| And but the booming shots replied | J |
| And fast the flames roll'd on | L |
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| Upon his brow he felt their breath | M |
| And in his waving hair | N |
| And looked from that lone post of death | M |
| In still yet brave despair | N |
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| And shouted but one more aloud | O |
| My father must I stay | H |
| While o'er him fast through sail and shroud | O |
| The wreathing fires made way | H |
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| They wrapt the ship in splendour wild | P |
| They caught the flag on high | Q |
| And stream'd above the gallant child | P |
| Like banners in the sky | Q |
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| There came a burst of thunder sound | R |
| The boy oh where was he | S |
| Ask of the winds that far around | R |
| With fragments strewed the sea | S |
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| With mast and helm and pennon fair | N |
| That well had borne their part | T |
| But the noblest thing which perished there | N |
| Was that young faithful heart | T |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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