Bantry Bay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHD D IJIKLALA

On the eighteenth of October we lay in Bantry BayA
All ready to set sail with a fresh and steady galeB
A fortnight and nine days we in the harbour layA
And no breeze ever reached us or strained a single sailB
Three ships of war had we and the great guns loaded allC
But our ships were dead and beaten that had never feared a foeD
The winds becalmed around us cared for no cannon ballC
They locked us in the harbour and would not let us goD
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On the nineteenth of October by eleven of the clockE
The sky turned black as midnight and a sudden storm came onF
Awful and sudden and the cables felt the shockE
Our anchors they all broke away and every sheet was goneG
The guns fired off amid the strife but little hope had weH
The billows broke above the ship and left us all belowD
The crew with one consent cried 'Bear further out to sea '-
But the waves obeyed no sailor's call and we knew not where to goD
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She foundered on a rock while we clambered up the shroudsI
And staggered like a mountain drunk wedged in the waves almostJ
The red hot boiling billows foamed in the stooping cloudsI
And in that fatal tempest the whole ship's crew were lostK
Have pity for poor mariners ye landsmen in a stormL
O think what they endure at sea while safe at home you stayA
All ye that sleep on beds at night in houses dry and warmL
O think upon the whole ship's crew all lost at Bantry BayA

John Clare



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