Strange Life Preserver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGH IIJK CCEF DDEF LLMM NFOO PFQQ R| A sailor he was swept from deck | A |
| In minute he seem'd as a speck | A |
| Tossing on each briny wave | B |
| They feared the sea would be his grave | B |
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| Though they full quickly launched the boat | C |
| They could not see where he did float | C |
| He now was a long ways astern | D |
| His whereabouts they could not learn | D |
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| But while he on the waves did toss | E |
| He was seized by great Albatross | F |
| Who had been looking round in quest | G |
| Of something whereon it could rest I | H |
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| It hover'd o'er him with its wings | I |
| And its great webb feet on him clings | I |
| And it tore him with its sharp beak | J |
| For it was longing for some steak | K |
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| But sailor seized it by the throat | C |
| And found with ease he then could float | C |
| So sailor's life was saved by loss | E |
| Of the life of the Albatross | F |
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| The boat's crew found him none too soon | D |
| For he had fallen into a swoon | D |
| Him they would not have come across | E |
| Had they not seen the Albatross | F |
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| And thus poor Jack his life was saved | L |
| For fierce rage of bird he braved | L |
| Though in a faint he still did cling | M |
| One arm round neck and one round wing | M |
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| For as a friend he did hug close | N |
| That fine large bird the Albatross | F |
| Sailors row comrade back to ship | O |
| Where he relates his wondrous trip | O |
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| Sailors fear that many a cross J | P |
| Will fall on crew kill Albatross | F |
| This was slain in self defence | Q |
| And so no harm it came from thence | Q |
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| The lone Albatross incumbent on the air | R |
James Mcintyre
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