The Berg (a Dream) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFEF GGHIIDJKLKMNMNOPDD QQRRDSSSTT| I saw a ship of material build | A |
| Her standards set her brave apparel on | B |
| Directed as by madness mere | C |
| Against a solid iceberg steer | C |
| Nor budge it though the infactuate ship went down | D |
| The impact made huge ice cubes fall | E |
| Sullen in tons that crashed the deck | F |
| But that one avalanche was all | E |
| No other movement save the foundering wreck | F |
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| Along the spurs of ridges pale | G |
| Not any slenderest shaft and frail | G |
| A prism over glass green gorges lone | H |
| Toppled or lace or traceries fine | I |
| Nor pendant drops in grot or mine | I |
| Were jarred when the stunned ship went down | D |
| Nor sole the gulls in cloud that wheeled | J |
| Circling one snow flanked peak afar | K |
| But nearer fowl the floes that skimmed | L |
| And crystal beaches felt no jar | K |
| No thrill transmitted stirred the lock | M |
| Of jack straw neddle ice at base | N |
| Towers indermined by waves the block | M |
| Atilt impending kept their place | N |
| Seals dozing sleek on sliddery ledges | O |
| Slipt never when by loftier edges | P |
| Through the inertia ovrthrown | D |
| The impetuous ship in bafflement went down | D |
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| Hard Berg methought so cold so vast | Q |
| With mortal damps self overcast | Q |
| Exhaling still thy dankish breath | R |
| Adrift dissolving bound for death | R |
| Though lumpish thou a lumbering one | D |
| A lumbering lubbard loitering slow | S |
| Impingers rue thee ad go slow | S |
| Sounding thy precipice below | S |
| Nor stir the slimy slug that sprawls | T |
| Along thy dead indifference of walls | T |
Herman Melville
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