The Dictaphone Bard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBBC ABDE FBBC BBBC BGBE BBAC| And here is a suggestion Did you ever try dictating your stories or articles to the dictaphone for the first draft I would be glad to have you come down and make the experiment From a shorthand reporter's circular letter | A |
| As The Ballad of the Tempest would have to issue from the dictaphone to the stenographer | A |
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| We were crowded in the cabin comma | B |
| Not a soul would dare to sleep dash comma | B |
| It was midnight on the waters comma | B |
| And a storm was on the deep period | C |
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| Apostrophe Tis a fearful thing in capital Winter | A |
| To be shattered by the blast comma | B |
| And to hear the rattling trumpet | D |
| Thunder colon quote capital Cut away the mast exclamation point close quote | E |
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| So we shuddered there in silence comma dash | F |
| For the stoutest held his breath comma | B |
| While the hungry sea was roaring comma | B |
| And the breakers talked with capital Death period | C |
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| As thus we sat in darkness comma | B |
| Each one busy with his prayers comma | B |
| Quote We are lost exclamation point close quote the captain shouted comma | B |
| As he staggered down the stairs period | C |
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| But his little daughter whispered comma | B |
| As she took his icy hand colon | G |
| Quote Isn't capital God upon the ocean comma | B |
| Just the same as on the land interrogation point close quote | E |
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| Then we kissed the little maiden comma | B |
| And we spake in better cheer comma | B |
| And we anchored safe in harbor | A |
| When the morn was shining clear period | C |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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