Drowned At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGGHHIIDDE EF JEEKKLLMNOOF| Gloomy cliffs so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves | A |
| Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ocean graves | A |
| Are ye not the sad memorials telling of a mighty grief | B |
| Dark with records ground and lettered into caverned rock and reef | B |
| Oh ye show them and I know them and my thoughts in mourning go | C |
| Down amongst your sunless chasms deep into the surf below | C |
| Oh ye bear them and declare them and o er every cleft and scar | D |
| I have wept for dear dead brothers perished in the lost Dunbar | D |
| Ye smitten ye battered | E |
| And splintered and shattered | E |
| Cliffs of the Sea | F |
| Restless waves so dim with dreams of sudden storms and gusty surge | G |
| Roaring like a gathered whirlwind reeling round a mountain verge | G |
| Were ye not like loosened maniacs in the night when Beauty pale | H |
| Called upon her God beseeching through the uproar of the gale | H |
| Were ye not like maddened demons while young children faint with fear | I |
| Cried and cried and cried for succour and no helping hand was near | I |
| Oh the sorrow of the morrow lamentations near and far | D |
| Oh the sobs for dear dead sisters perished in the lost Dunbar | D |
| Ye ruthless unsated | E |
| And hateful and hated | E |
| Waves of the Sea | F |
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| Ay we stooped and moaned in darkness | J |
| eyes might strain and hearts might plead | E |
| For their darlings crying wildly they would never rise nor heed | E |
| Ay we yearned into their faces looking for the life in vain | K |
| Wailing like to children blinded with a mist of sudden pain | K |
| Dear hands clenched and dear eyes rigid in a stern and stony stare | L |
| Dear lips white from past affliction dead to all our mad despair | L |
| Ah the groaning and the moaning ah the thoughts which rise in tears | M |
| When we turn to all those loved ones looking backward five long years | N |
| The fathers and mothers | O |
| The sisters and brothers | O |
| Drowned at Sea | F |
Henry Kendall
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