The Maldive Shark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGFHIJICKLMDL| About the Shark phlegmatical one | A |
| Pale sot of the Maldive sea | B |
| The sleek little pilot fish azure and slim | C |
| How alert in attendance be | B |
| From his saw pit of mouth from his charnel | D |
| of maw | E |
| They have nothing of harm to dread | F |
| But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank | G |
| Or before his Gorgonian head | F |
| Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth | H |
| In white triple tiers of glittering gates | I |
| And there find a haven when peril's abroad | J |
| An asylum in jaws of the Fates | I |
| They are friends and friendly they guide him | C |
| to prey | K |
| Yet never partake of the treat | L |
| Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and | M |
| dull | D |
| Pale ravener of horrible meat | L |
Herman Melville
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