Sonnet, Supposed To Be Written By The Unhappy Poet Dermody In Storm, While On Board A Ship In His Ma Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCEFFEGG| Lo o'er the welkin the tempestuous clouds | A |
| Successive fly and the loud piping wind | B |
| Rocks the poor sea boy on the dripping shrouds | A |
| While the pale pilot o'er the helm reclined | B |
| Lists to the changeful storm and as he plies | C |
| His wakeful task he oft bethinks him sad | D |
| Of wife and little home and chubby lad | D |
| And the half strangled tear bedews his eyes | C |
| I on the deck musing on themes forlorn | E |
| View the drear tempest and the yawning deep | F |
| Nought dreading in the green sea's caves to sleep | F |
| For not for me shall wife or children mourn | E |
| And the wild winds will ring my funeral knell | G |
| Sweetly as solemn peal of pious passing bell | G |
Henry Kirk White
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Sonnet: Recantatory, In Reply To The Foregoing Elegant Admonition Poem
Sonnet, Supposed To Have Been Addressed By A Female Lunatic To A Lady Poem>>