In The Turret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDDEFGF BHBIIJJKLKL FMFMMNNONON NPNPPMMCQCQ| March | A |
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| Your honest heart of duty Worden | B |
| So helped you that in fame you dwell | C |
| You bore the first iron battle's burden | B |
| Sealed as in a diving bell | C |
| Alcides groping into haunted hell | C |
| To bring forth King Admetus' bride | D |
| Braved naught more vaguely direful and untried | D |
| What poet shall uplift his charm | E |
| Bold Sailor to your height of daring | F |
| And interblend therewith the calm | G |
| And build a goodly style upon your bearing | F |
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| Escaped the gale of outer ocean | B |
| Cribbed in a craft which like a log | H |
| Was washed by every billow's motion | B |
| By night you heard of Og | I |
| The huge nor felt your courage clog | I |
| At tokens of his onset grim | J |
| You marked the sunk ship's flag staff slim | J |
| Lit by her burning sister's heart | K |
| You marked and mused Day brings the trial | L |
| Then be it proved if I have part | K |
| With men whose manhood never took denial | L |
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| A prayer went up a champion's Morning | F |
| Beheld you in the Turret walled | M |
| by adamant where a spirit forewarning | F |
| And all deriding called | M |
| Man darest thou desperate unappalled | M |
| Be first to lock thee in the armored tower | N |
| I have thee now and what the battle hour | N |
| To me shall bring heed well thou'lt share | O |
| This plot work planned to be the foeman's terror | N |
| To thee may prove a goblin snare | O |
| Its very strength and cunning monstrous error | N |
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| Stand up my heart be strong what matter | N |
| If here thou seest thy welded tomb | P |
| And let huge Og with thunders batter | N |
| Duty be still my doom | P |
| Though drowning come in liquid gloom | P |
| First duty duty next and duty last | M |
| Ay Turret rivet me here to duty fast | M |
| So nerved you fought wisely and well | C |
| And live twice live in life and story | Q |
| But over your Monitor dirges swell | C |
| In wind and wave that keep the rites of glory | Q |
Herman Melville
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