The Stone Fleet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFF GDHDFF IJKLFF MIFIFF FFFFFF NOPOFF| An Old Sailor's Lament | A |
| December | B |
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| I have a feeling for those ships | C |
| Each worn and ancient one | D |
| With great bluff bows and broad in the beam | E |
| Ay it was unkindly done | D |
| But so they serve the Obsolete | F |
| Even so Stone Fleet | F |
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| You'll say I'm doting do you think | G |
| I scudded round the Horn in one | D |
| The Tenedos a glorious | H |
| Good old craft as ever run | D |
| Sunk how all unmeet | F |
| With the Old Stone Fleet | F |
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| An India ship of fame was she | I |
| Spices and shawls and fans she bore | J |
| A whaler when the wrinkles came | K |
| Turned off till spent and poor | L |
| Her bones were sold escheat | F |
| Ah Stone Fleet | F |
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| Four were erst patrician keels | M |
| Names attest what families be | I |
| The Kensington and Richmond too | F |
| Leonidas and Lee | I |
| But now they have their seat | F |
| With the Old Stone Fleet | F |
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| To scuttle them a pirate deed | F |
| Sack them and dismast | F |
| They sunk so slow they died so hard | F |
| But gurgling dropped at last | F |
| Their ghosts in gales repeat | F |
| Woe's us Stone Fleet | F |
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| And all for naught The waters pass | N |
| Currents will have their way | O |
| Nature is nobody's ally 'tis well | P |
| The harbor is bettered will stay | O |
| A failure and complete | F |
| Was your Old Stone Fleet | F |
Herman Melville
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