The Titanic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGAA| As she sped from dawn to gloaming a palace upon the sea | A |
| Did the waves from her proud bows foaming whisper what port should be | A |
| That her maiden voyage was tending to a haven hushed and deep | B |
| Where after the shock and the rending she should moor at the wharf of sleep | B |
| Oh her name shall be tale and token to all the ships that sail | C |
| How her mighty heart was broken by blow of a crystal flail | C |
| How in majesty still peerless her helpless head she bowed | D |
| And in light and music fearless plunged to her purple shroud | D |
| Did gleams and dreams half heeded while the days so lightly ran | E |
| Awaken the glory seeded from God in the soul of man | E |
| For touched with a shining chrism with love's fine grace imbued | F |
| Men turned them to heroisim as it were but habitude | F |
| O midnight strange and solemn when the icebergs stood at gaze | G |
| Death on one pallid column to watch our human ways | G |
| And saw throned Death defeated by a greater lord than he | A |
| Immortal Life who greeted home comers from the sea | A |
Katharine Lee Bates
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