The Aeolian Harp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EEFF FAFGAHG FAIAJKJKGGFF FFFFLLFFMM BNBNOPFP QRQR| At The Surf Inn | A |
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| List the harp in window wailing | B |
| Stirred by fitful gales from sea | C |
| Shrieking up in mad crescendo | D |
| Dying down in plaintive key | C |
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| Listen less a strain ideal | E |
| Than Ariel's rendering of the Real | E |
| What that Real is let hint | F |
| A picture stamped in memory's mint | F |
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| Braced well up with beams aslant | F |
| Betwixt the continents sails the Phocion | A |
| For Baltimore bound from Alicant | F |
| Blue breezy skies white fleeces fleck | G |
| Over the chill blue white capped ocean | A |
| From yard arm comes Wreck ho a | H |
| wreck | G |
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| Dismasted and adrift | F |
| Longtime a thing forsaken | A |
| Overwashed by every wave | I |
| Like the slumbering kraken | A |
| Heedless if the billow roar | J |
| Oblivious of the lull | K |
| Leagues and leagues from shoal or shore | J |
| It swims a levelled hull | K |
| Bulwarks gone a shaven wreck | G |
| Nameless and a grass green deck | G |
| A lumberman perchance in hold | F |
| Prostrate pines with hemlocks rolled | F |
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| It has drifted waterlogged | F |
| Till by trailing weeds beclogged | F |
| Drifted drifted day by day | F |
| Pilotless on pathless way | F |
| It has drifted till each plank | L |
| Is oozy as the oyster bank | L |
| Drifted drifted night by night | F |
| Craft that never shows a light | F |
| Nor ever to prevent worse knell | M |
| Tolls in fog the warning bell | M |
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| From collision never shrinking | B |
| Drive what may through darksome smother | N |
| Saturate but never sinking | B |
| Fatal only to the other | N |
| Deadlier than the sunken reef | O |
| Since still the snare it shifteth | P |
| Torpid in dumb ambuscade | F |
| Waylayingly it drifteth | P |
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| O the sailors O the sails | Q |
| O the lost crews never heard of | R |
| Well the harp of Ariel wails | Q |
| Thought that tongue can tell no word of | R |
Herman Melville
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