By The Seaside : Sir Humphrey Gilbert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGCG HIJI IKJK LM KNHN OPCP QRSR TUGU VWXW| Southward with fleet of ice | A |
| Sailed the corsair Death | B |
| Wild and gast blew the blast | C |
| And the east wind was his breath | B |
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| His lordly ships of ice | A |
| Glisten in the sun | D |
| On each side like pennons wide | E |
| Flashing crystal streamlets run | D |
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| His sails of white sea mist | F |
| Dripped with silver rain | G |
| But where he passed there were cast | C |
| Leaden shadows o'er the main | G |
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| Eastward from Campobello | H |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed | I |
| Three days or more seaward he bore | J |
| Then alas the land wind failed | I |
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| Alas the land wind failed | I |
| And ice cold grew the night | K |
| And nevermore on sea or shore | J |
| Should Sir Humphrey see the light | K |
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| He sat upon the deck | L |
| The Book was in his hand | M |
| 'Do not fear Heaven is as near ' | - |
| He said 'by water as by land ' | - |
| - | |
| In the first watch of the night | K |
| Without a signal's sound | N |
| Out of the sea mysteriously | H |
| The fleet of Death rose all around | N |
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| The moon and the evening star | O |
| Were hanging in the shrouds | P |
| Every mast as it passed | C |
| Seemed to rake the passing clouds | P |
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| They grappled with their prize | Q |
| At midnight black and cold | R |
| As of a rock was the shock | S |
| Heavily the ground swell rolled | R |
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| Southward through day and dark | T |
| They drift in cold embrace | U |
| With mist and rain o'er the open main | G |
| Yet there seems no change of place | U |
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| Southward forever southward | V |
| They drift through dark and day | W |
| And like a dream in the Gulf Stream | X |
| Sinking vanish all away | W |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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