The Legend Of A Pass Christian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HAIA JBJB HKHL MNMN OPAP QFQR STST MAMA UVGV WHWH XYXY ZTZT ABLB CA2EA2 AB2AB2 DBDB EC2CC2| A Live oak grows by the shallow sea | A |
| Rest under its boughs I pray | B |
| And hear of the pirate bold was he | A |
| And the lady he stole away | B |
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| He was a black browed buccaneer | C |
| And she like a snow drop white | D |
| From a scuttled ship he bore her clear | E |
| As it sunk in the haggard night | D |
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| And with bell and book he wedded her | F |
| And shaped her to his will | G |
| Yet though her body could not stir | F |
| Her soul escaped him still | G |
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| Though we be wed and vows be said | H |
| Though beaten sore I be | A |
| I'm naught of thine thou'rt naught of mine | I |
| God loose these bonds from me | A |
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| On through long days and nights of woe | J |
| The black ship held its way | B |
| It faced the iceberg topped with snow | J |
| It scoured the tropic bay | B |
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| Through nights and days of wrath and dread | H |
| The ship sped darkly on | K |
| Behind it like a trail of red | H |
| Its path glared to the sun | L |
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| And fiercer rose the skipper's pride | M |
| And black his anger grew | N |
| That he who man and God defied | M |
| One soul could not subdue | N |
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| Ah many a pain and many a stain | O |
| We women bear for men | P |
| Yet blest is she whose soul is free | A |
| Even in the dragon s den | P |
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| And when he knew nor time nor fate | Q |
| Could bring him his desire | F |
| He held dark converse with his hate | Q |
| To find a vengeance dire | R |
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| And many an oath to hell he cast | S |
| While in the devil's name | T |
| He bound his lady to the mast | S |
| And set the ship aflame | T |
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| Long hast thou hated me he cried | M |
| Now laugh aloud in glee | A |
| Though thou shouldst call me o'er the tide | M |
| I come not back to thee | A |
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| The sea is deep and I shall sleep | U |
| Softly beneath the wave | V |
| Faith thou canst kill now do thy will | G |
| And bless me with a grave | V |
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| Swiftly the royal sun dropped down | W |
| Deep in his purple bed | H |
| And swiftly at the skipper's frown | W |
| His oarsmen shoreward sped | H |
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| The sudden night fell soft and dark | X |
| On lonely sea and shore | Y |
| Before back at the fated bark | X |
| Its captain gazed once more | Y |
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| I know not if the thing he hailed | Z |
| From hell or heaven came | T |
| A livid ship that sailless sailed | Z |
| Lit up by song and flame | T |
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| Far out to sea I flee I flee | A |
| Oh heaven is far away | B |
| My days are done under the sun | L |
| Why must I longer stay | B |
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| Row fast row fast yet shall he hear | C |
| Naught but that wailing now | A2 |
| Yet shall he see through nights of fear | E |
| That figure at the prow | A2 |
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| Long years under this live oak tree | A |
| Naught else he saw and heard | B2 |
| At last once more he put to sea | A |
| By a strange passion stirred | B2 |
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| The loud storm roared and flashed that night | D |
| And never night nor day | B |
| Saw the old pirate's shallop white | D |
| Drift back across the bay | B |
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| Now we who wait one night a year | E |
| Under these branches long | C2 |
| May see a flaming ship and hear | C |
| The echo of a song | C2 |
Harriet Monroe
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