The Good Craft _snow Bird_ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGCG DHIH JKJL MNMNStrenuous 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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