The Pelican Island Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKELMN OPQ RSTJUEVWXYSZA2B2C2C2 D2E2A2D2A2F2| Light as a flake of foam upon the wind | A |
| Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell | B |
| Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is fill'd | C |
| Fraught with young life it righted as it rose | D |
| And moved at will along the yielding water | E |
| The native pilot of this little bark | F |
| Put out a tier of oars on either side | G |
| Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail | H |
| And mounted up and glided down the billow | I |
| In happy freedom pleased to feel the air | J |
| And wander in the luxury of light | K |
| Worth all the dead creation in that hour | E |
| To me appeared this lonely Nautilus | L |
| My fellow being like myself | M |
| alive | N |
| - | |
| Entranced in contemplation vague yet sweet | O |
| I watched its vagrant course and rippling wake | P |
| Till I forgot the sun amidst the heavens | Q |
| - | |
| IT closed sunk dwindled to a point then nothing | R |
| While the last bubble crown'd the dimpling eddy | S |
| Through which mine eyes still giddily pursued it | T |
| A joyous creature vaulted through the air | J |
| The aspiring fish that fain would be a bird | U |
| On long light wings that flung a diamond shower | E |
| Of dew drops round its evanescent form | V |
| Sprang into light and instantly descended | W |
| Ere I could greet the stranger as a friend | X |
| Or mourn his quick departure on the surge | Y |
| A shoal of dolphins tumbling in wild glee | S |
| Glow'd with such orient tints they might have been | Z |
| The rainbow's offspring when it met the ocean | A2 |
| In that resplendent vision I had seen | B2 |
| While yet in ecstasy I hung o'er these | C2 |
| With every motion pouring out fresh beauties | C2 |
| As though the conscious colours came and went | D2 |
| At pleasure glorying in their subtile changes | E2 |
| Enormous o'er the flood Leviathan | A2 |
| Look'd forth and from his roaring nostrils sent | D2 |
| Two fountains to the sky then plunged amain | A2 |
| In headlong pastime through the closing gulf | F2 |
James Montgomery
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