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Don Juan: Canto The Second Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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XXIV	A
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The ship call'd the most holy Trinidada	B
Was steering duly for the port Leghorn	C
For there the Spanish family Moncada	B
Were settled long ere Juan's sire was born	C
They were relations and for them he had a	B
Letter of introduction which the morn	C
Of his departure had been sent him by	D
His Spanish friends for those in Italy XXV	A
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His suite consisted of three servants and	B
A tutor the licentiate Pedrillo	E
Who several languages did understand	B
But now lay sick and speechless on his pillow	E
And rocking in his hammock long'd for land	B
His headache being increas'd by every billow	E
And the waves oozing through the port hole made	B
His berth a little damp and him afraid XXVI	A
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'Twas not without some reason for the wind	B
Increas'd at night until it blew a gale	E
And though 'twas not much to a naval mind	B
Some landsmen would have look'd a little pale	E
For sailors are in fact a different kind	B
At sunset they began to take in sail	E
For the sky show'd it would come on to blow	E
And carry away perhaps a mast or so XXVII	A
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At one o'clock the wind with sudden shift	B
Threw the ship right into the trough of the sea	F
Which struck her aft and made an awkward rift	B
Started the stern post also shatter'd the	B
Whole of her stern frame and ere she could lift	B
Herself from out her present jeopardy	F
The rudder tore away 'twas time to sound	B
The pumps and there were four feet water found XXVIII	A
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One gang of people instantly was put	B
Upon the pumps and the remainder set	B
To get up part of the cargo and what not	B
But they could not come at the leak as yet	B
At last they did get at it really but	B
Still their salvation was an even bet	B
The water rush'd through in a way quite puzzling	G
While they thrust sheets shirts jackets bales of muslin XXIX	F
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Into the opening but all such ingredients	F
Would have been vain and they must have gone down	H
Despite of all their efforts and expedients	F
But for the pumps I'm glad to make them known	I
To all the brother tars who may have need hence	F
For fifty tons of water were upthrown	I
By them per hour and they had all been undone	I
But for the maker Mr Mann of London XXX	F
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As day advanc'd the weather seem'd to abate	B
And then the leak they reckon'd to reduce	F
And keep the ship afloat though three feet yet	B
Kept two hand and one chain pump still in use	F
The wind blew fresh again as it grew late	B
A squall came on and while some guns broke loose	F
A gust which all descriptive power transcends	F
Laid with one blast the ship on her beam ends XXXI	F
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There she lay motionless and seem'd upset	B
The water left the hold and wash'd the decks	F
And made a scene men do not soon forget	B
For they remember battles fires and wrecks	F
Or any other thing that brings regret	B
Or breaks their hopes or hearts or heads or necks	F
Thus drownings are much talked of by the divers	F
And swimmers who may chance to be survivors XXXII	F
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Immediately the masts were cut away	J
Both main and mizen first the mizen went	B
The mainmast follow'd but the ship still lay	J
Like a mere log and baffled our intent	B
Foremast and bowsprit were cut down and they	J
Eas'd her at last although we never meant	B
To part with all till every hope was blighted	B
And then with violence the old ship righted XXXIII	F
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It may be easily suppos'd while this	F
Was going on some people were unquiet	B
That passengers would find it much amiss	F
To lose their lives as well as spoil their diet	B
That even the able seaman deeming his	F
Days nearly o'er might be dispos'd to riot	B
As upon such occasions tars will ask	K
For grog and sometimes drink rum from the cask XXXIV	A
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There's nought no doubt so much the spirit calms	F
As rum and true religion thus it was	F
Some plunder'd some drank spirits some sung psalms	F
The high wind made the treble and as bass	F
The hoarse harsh waves kept time fright cur'd the qualms	F
Of all the luckless landsmen's sea sick maws	F
Strange sounds of wailing blasphemy devotion	I
Clamour'd in chorus to the roaring ocean XXXV	A
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Perhaps more mischief had been done but for	L
Our Juan who with sense beyond his years	F
Got to the spirit room and stood before	L
It with a pair of pistols and their fears	F
As if Death were more dreadful by his door	L
Of fire than water spite of oaths and tears	F
Kept still aloof the crew who ere they sunk	M
Thought it would be becoming to die drunk XXXVI	A
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Give us more grog they cried for it will be	F
All one an hour hence Juan answer'd No	I
'Tis true that Death awaits both you and me	F
But let us die like men not sink below	I
Like brutes and thus his dangerous post kept he	F
And none lik'd to anticipate the blow	I
And even Pedrillo his most reverend tutor	N
Was for some rum a disappointed suitor XXXVII	A
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The good old gentleman was quite aghast	B
And made a loud and pious lamentation	I
Repented all his sins and made a last	B
Irrevocable vow of reformation	I
Nothing should tempt him more this peril past	B
To quit his academic occupation	I
In cloisters of the classic Salamanca	B
To follow Juan's wake like Sancho Panca XXXVIII	A
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But now there came a flash of hope once more	L
Day broke and the wind lull'd the masts were gone	I
The leak increas'd shoals round her but no shore	L
The vessel swam yet still she held her own	I
They tried the pumps again and though before	L
Their desperate efforts seem'd all useless grown	I
A glimpse of sunshine set some hands to bale	E
The stronger pump'd the weaker thrumm'd a sail XXXIX	F
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Under the vessel's keel the sail was pass'd	B
And for the moment it had some effect	B
But with a leak and not a stick of mast	B
Nor rag of canvas what could they expect	B
But still 'tis best to struggle to the last	B
'Tis never too late to be wholly wreck'd	B
And though 'tis true that man can only die once	F
'Tis not so pleasant in the Gulf of Lyons XL	E
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There winds and waves had hurl'd them and from thence	F
Without their will they carried them away	J
For they were forc'd with steering to dispense	F
And never had as yet a quiet day	J
On which they might repose or even commence	F
A jurymast or rudder or could say	J
The ship would swim an hour which by good luck	O
Still swam though not exactly like a duck XLI	E
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The wind in fact perhaps was rather less	F
But the ship labour'd so they scarce could hope	P
To weather out much longer the distress	F
Was also great with which they had to cope	P
For want of water and their solid mess	F
Was scant enough in vain the telescope	P
Was us'd nor sail nor shore appear'd in sight	B
Nought but the heavy sea and coming night XLII	E
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Again the weather threaten'd again blew	E
A gale and in the fore and after hold	B
Water appear'd yet though the people knew	E
All this the most were patient and some bold	B
Until the chains and leathers were worn through	E
Of all our pumps a wreck complete she roll'd	B
At mercy of the waves whose mercies are	Q
Like human beings during civil war XLIII	E
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Then came the carpenter at last with tears	F
In his rough eyes and told the captain he	F
Could do no more he was a man in years	F
And long had voyag'd through many a stormy sea	F
And if he wept at length they were not fears	F
That made his eyelids as a woman's be	F
But he poor fellow had a wife and children	I
Two things for dying people quite bewildering XLIV	A
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The ship was evidently settling now	I
Fast by the head and all distinction gone	I
Some went to prayers again and mad	B