When Heaving On The Stormy Waters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFD CGHG DIJI KLCL EDED| When heaving on the stormy waters | A |
| I felt my ship beneath to sink | B |
| I prayed quot Oh Father Satan save me | C |
| Forgive me at death's utter brink | B |
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| quot If you will save my soul embittered | D |
| From perishing before its hour | E |
| The days to come the nights that follow | F |
| I vow to vice I pledge to power quot | D |
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| The Devil forthwith snatched and flung me | C |
| Into a boat the sides were frail | G |
| But on the bench the oars were lying | H |
| And in the bow an old gray sail | G |
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| And landward once again I carried | D |
| My outcast soul bereft of kin | I |
| Upon its sick and vicious sojourn | J |
| My body and its gift of sin | I |
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| And I am faithful Father Satan | K |
| Unto my evil hour's vow | L |
| When from my drowning ship you saved me | C |
| And when I prayed you guide the prow | L |
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| To you descend my praises Father | E |
| No day from bitter blame exempt | D |
| O'er worlds my blasphemy shall tower | E |
| And I shall tempt and I shall tempt | D |
Fyodor Sologub
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