At The Cannon's Mouth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEEFFDG HH IJIJKJLMNOPPQQQ PRRSTT| Destruction of the Ram Albermarle by the Torpedo Launch | A |
| October | B |
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| Palely intent he urged his keel | C |
| Full on the guns and touched the spring | D |
| Himself involved in the bolt he drove | E |
| Timed with the armed hull's shot that stove | E |
| His shallop die or do | F |
| Into the flood his life he threw | F |
| Yet lives unscathed a breathing thing | D |
| To marvel at | G |
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| He has his fame | H |
| But that mad dash at death how name | H |
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| Had Earth no charm to stay the Boy | I |
| From the martyr passion Could he dare | J |
| Disdain the Paradise of opening joy | I |
| Which beckons the fresh heart every where | J |
| Life has more lures than any girl | K |
| For youth and strength puts forth a share | J |
| Of beauty hinting of yet rarer store | L |
| And ever with unfathomable eyes | M |
| Which baffingly entice | N |
| Still strangely does Adonis draw | O |
| And life once over who shall tell the rest | P |
| Life is of all we know God's best | P |
| What imps these eagles then that they | Q |
| Fling disrespect on life by that proud way | Q |
| In which they soar above our lower clay | Q |
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| Pretense of wonderment and doubt unblest | P |
| In Cushing's eager deed was shown | R |
| A spirit which brave poets own | R |
| That scorn of life which earns life's crown | S |
| Earns but not always wins but he | T |
| The star ascended in his nativity | T |
Herman Melville
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