The Good Craft Snow Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGCG DHIH JKJL MNMN| Strenuous need that head wind be | A |
| From purposed voyage that drives at last | B |
| The ship sharp braced and dogged still | C |
| Beating up against the blast | B |
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| Brigs that figs for market gather | D |
| Homeward bound upon the stretch | E |
| Encounter oft this uglier weather | D |
| Yet in end their port they fetch | E |
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| Mark yon craft from sunny Smyrna | F |
| Glazed with ice in Boston Bay | G |
| Out they toss the fig drums cheerly | C |
| Livelier for the frosty ray | G |
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| What if sleet off shore assailed her | D |
| What though ice yet plate her yards | H |
| In wintry port not less she renders | I |
| Summer's gift with warm regards | H |
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| And look the underwriters' man | J |
| Timely when the stevedore's done | K |
| Puts on his specs to pry and scan | J |
| And sets her down A No | L |
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| Bravo master Bravo brig | M |
| For slanting snows out of the West | N |
| Never the Snow Bird cares one fig | M |
| And foul winds steady her though a pest | N |
Herman Melville
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