A Death At Sea. (coral Sea, Australia.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHI A JKJK LMLM JNJN OPOP AQ RJRJ STSU VWVW| I | A |
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| Dead in the sheep pen he lies | B |
| Wrapped in an old brown sail | C |
| The smiling blue sea and the skies | B |
| Know not sorrow nor wail | C |
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| Dragged up out of the hold | D |
| Dead on his last way home | E |
| Worn out wizened a Chinee old | D |
| O he is safe at home | E |
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| Brother I stand not as these | F |
| Staring upon you here | G |
| One of earth's patient toilers at peace | H |
| I see I revere | I |
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| II | A |
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| In the warm cloudy night we go | J |
| From the motionless ship | K |
| Our lanterns feebly glow | J |
| Our oars drop and drip | K |
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| We land on the thin pale beach | L |
| The coral isle's round us | M |
| A glade of driven sand we reach | L |
| Our burial ground's found us | M |
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| There we dig him a grave jesting | J |
| We know not his name | N |
| What heeds he who is resting resting | J |
| Would I were the same | N |
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| Come away it is over and done | O |
| Peace and he shall not sever | P |
| By moonlight nor light of the sun | O |
| For ever and ever | P |
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| III | A |
| DIRGE | Q |
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| Sleep in the pure driven sand | R |
| No one will know | J |
| In the coral isle by the land | R |
| Where the blue tides come and go | J |
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| Alive thou wert poor despised | S |
| Dead thou canst have | T |
| What mightiest monarchs have prized | S |
| An eternal grave | U |
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| Alone with the lovely isles | V |
| With the lovely deep | W |
| Where the sea winds sing and the sunlight smiles | V |
| Thou liest asleep | W |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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