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