A Burnt Ship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC| Out of a fired ship which by no way | A |
| But drowning could be rescued from the flame | B |
| Some men leap'd forth and ever as they came | B |
| Near the foes' ships did by their shot decay | A |
| So all were lost which in the ship were found | C |
| They in the sea being burnt they in the burnt ship drown'd | C |
John Donne
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