Captain's Adventure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FGHH IIEE BCJJ EEKK LMEE HHEE NNOO EEPP EEQQ QQRR SSTT QQJJ| Three years ago my vessel lay | A |
| In a port of Hudson Bay | A |
| I started off for the trading post | B |
| But on the way back I then got lost | C |
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| And the thought soon gave me the blues | D |
| Trudging along on my snow shoes | D |
| Over the wastes of drifting snow | E |
| While the wind it did fiercely blow | E |
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| I feared that I would be froze hard | F |
| For it was a fearful blizzard | G |
| I was growing faint and weary | H |
| Not the slightest hopes to cheer me | H |
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| Without compass to bearing | I |
| My yells were beyond crews' hearing | I |
| But at last to my loud halloo | E |
| There came a mournful ho ho | E |
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| From creature white I thought 'twas ghost | B |
| And that I was forever lost | C |
| I heard horrid creature flutter | J |
| As it those strange sounds did utter | J |
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| At last I found that all this howl | E |
| Was from a noble large white owl | E |
| And a happy apparition | K |
| So runs the Indian tradition | K |
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| It guides the lost one in distress | L |
| And leads him out of wilderness | M |
| This strange bird I soon follow | E |
| And it still kept up its halloo | E |
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| It seem'd that it cried to cheer me | H |
| I thought the ship was now near me | H |
| As I walked o'er the banks of snow | E |
| I kept up a feeble halloo | E |
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| And but a little ways beyond | N |
| From my own crew I got respond | N |
| With joy I was received by crew | O |
| So happy all at my rescue | O |
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| It must be that some gentle soul | E |
| Did then inhabit that strange fowl | E |
| But O to me 'twas wondrous fair | P |
| For it thus saved me from despair | P |
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| The man's my foe who now doth growl | E |
| At the strange sounds made by the owl | E |
| The sailors all they took delight | Q |
| To feed this bird so pure and white | Q |
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| But soon the poor bird was o'erfed | Q |
| Early one morn we found it dead | Q |
| And my breast it heaved with sighs | R |
| And the tears poured from mine eyes | R |
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| But precious relic in glass case | S |
| I oft gaze on its kindly face | S |
| And grateful memories it brings | T |
| When I behold its glorious wings | T |
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| To stuff such birds I knew the art | Q |
| On it I worked with my whole heart | Q |
| To preserve each grace and feature | J |
| Full of charms to me is creature | J |
James Mcintyre
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