The Fate Of Henry Hudson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBA EEDFFDGGHIHI JJKKLLLMNOOPQIIOFRRM MSTTOOTS UVVUWWBKBKB LXLYYXBZA2IBB2B2IDDO OC2XC2X IIOOLLDDD2DFFD2E2E2J JFFBFBF F2F2F2G2G2FFH2H2H2FH 2F NI2I2NNFFJ2K2FFJ2K2L 2L2M2M2J2 IIOKKN2N2OO2O2BBKKP2 P2FFASAS I2I2Q2Q2A2M2M2A2RROO F2F2BBQ2Q2FN2N2FN2BB KKR2R2M2M2S2S2T2T2M2 M2 N2OON2U2EN2 G2G2FFFFFFLV2WLW2X2P I2PI2T2T2HY2Q2Q2Y2I2 HI2 T2Z2T2Z2Z2A3B3B3A3FC 3C3Z2FFFA2A2Z2Z2FFZ2 Z2 FFZ2FZ2FFFGZ2Z2BBGD3 E3 OZ2FZ2Z2Z2 U2EZ2Z2Z2Z2BB PPFFFFFFF3F3 G2G3FFG2A2FE2M2M2 A2A2OOZ2FFZ2FFOOZ2Z2 FFM2M2Z2Z2Z2Z2

I Louis Marin mariner born on the Breton coast	A
Must pass from earth away	B
And because wild remorse	C
Pursues me is my curse	D
My guilty hand this day	B
Will write down of the crime that haunts my death bed like a ghost	A
	-
In sixteen hundred ten	E
Bold Hudson and his men	E
Left London town behind with its castles towers and fanes	D
The crew were twenty three	F
Which alas included me	F
When the good ship Discovery went sailing down the Thames	D
We were all picked men and strong	G
We took willing hearts along	G
Yes our hearts were bold and brave	H
Every eye was keen and bright	I
When the wild Atlantic wave	H
Hid the homeland from our sight	I
	-
On a voyage of discovery bound to win a high renown	J
That on the line of years our names be proudly handed down	J
As with merry hearts and light we flew on before the blast	K
We little dreamed this voyage was ordained to be our last	K
All full of reckless venture and so fearless could we know	L
Hope beckoned on a path of fame to lure us into woe	L
As we sailed into the frozen seas the place of ice and snow	L
We sighted the ominous Farewell Cape	M
And steered north through drift ice up Baffin's Strait	N
Oh lonely and drear to the weary eye	O
Were the vast ice fields floating slowly by	O
Not a blade of grass not a leaf to tell	P
That the summer verdure was possible	Q
Round the pale horizon the aching sight	I
Met an awful vastness of barren white	I
As if earth lay beneath the chilly sky	O
Struck to death by Gehazi's leprosy	F
We sailed on and round us on every hand	R
On the darkling wave on the desert strand	R
On the rock bound coast on the icy cape	M
The ice heaved up in wild fantastic shape	M
In mountain and mosque and cathedral dome	S
Lofty peak and column and minaret	T
And ponderous arches in order set	T
Tower and spire and pinnacle high	O
Soaring up to the deep blue sky	O
Statues ice sculptured frost work and fret	T
That had some weird likeness to sights at home	S
	-
On and on we sailed through the waters dark	U
Where the damp fog clung like a witch's veil	V
And hid from the faces of watchers pale	V
The dangers that crowded around our bark	U
In this the birth place of the snow and mist	W
Icebergs by the low clouds covered and kissed	W
Clustered round us like ghosts to bar our way	B
While the sharp sleet drove on the icy blast	K
Cutting through the foam of the seething spray	B
Sheathing in ice both sail and mast	K
Northward still northward we sailed away	B
	-
The wild air was thick with flurrying snow	L
The winds broken loose raging swept and swirled	X
Heaping mountain drifts on hummock and floe	L
Deadly that wind as the cannon's breath	Y
To crush out life with the blast of death	Y
Wreathing winding sheets round an Arctic world	X
Upon that wild day on that dreadful day	B
Amid grinding noises of crash and jar	Z
With the winds and snow waves and ice at war	A2
In their wildest fury and greatest might	I
We drove with the storm into that wide bay	B
That forever will keep our captain's name	B2
And embalm in horror his death and fame	B2
And around us closed in the Arctic night	I
Our ship was caught in jaws of ice	D
That closed on it held it as in a vice	D
Ice was around us mountains high	O
Its dazzling spear points pierced the sky	O
In every shape of vast and wild	C2
Heaps upon heaps were tossed and hurled	X
Mountain on mountain roughly piled	C2
The chaos of an icy world	X
	-
It was a ghastly beautiful sight	I
The rosy flush of the Northern Light	I
Lances of splendour shot through the sky	O
And blood red banners were waved on high	O
Creatures of light darted to and fro	L
Dancing in mockery of our woe	L
Unrolling with their luminous hands	D
Belts of glory and quivering bands	D
Of heaving pulsing transparent green	D2
Throwing out light in shimmering waves	D
That spread into a tremulous sea	F
Of wavering glowing brilliancy	F
Clothing the heavens in delicate sheen	D2
From which darts and arrows and tongues of fire	E2
Glancing in splendour higher and higher	E2
Wove themselves into a glorious crown	J
Letting bright streamers hang wavering down	J
Until brilliant sea and crown of beams	F
Faded to mist like fairy dreams	F
Vanishing all away away	B
Away behind ice wall and icy caves	F
Leaving us in the moonlight grey	B
Pale skeletons sitting by frozen graves	F
	-
We in our misery cared not	F2
For splendours that mocked our wretched lot	F2
We were locked in a place by God forgot	F2
He did not care	G2
For sigh or prayer	G2
For He never answered to help or bless	F
But death and fell sickness and loathsomeness	F
Of disease that cometh from extreme cold	H2
Joined to cow the hearts of the brave and bold	H2
The provisions rotted within the hold	H2
And the worm eaten bread was foul to use	F
Sufferings and agonies manifold	H2
Gathered round the end of that fatal cruise	F
	-
The spring kept away so late oh so late	N
Through death our numbers waxed feeble and few	I2
And when famine sat down among the crew	I2
Came both sullen anger and fiery hate	N
And we hardened our hearts and cursed our fate	N
Some deserted to speedily fall and freeze	F
Some swollen and blue with the fell disease	F
Blasphemed and called on the saints in turn	J2
With choking utterance and livid tongue	K2
We cursed the captain to his face	F
For bringing us to this wretched case	F
He sat among us gloomy and stern	J2
His venturous heart was with anguish wrung	K2
While silent and sad	L2
Was the little lad	L2
His only son	M2
Once so full of fun	M2
When he sailed on the cruise that had no return	J2
	-
Sitting in our misery on a night	I
Fresh wonders burst on our awe struck sight	I
For the stars were raining out of the sky	O
In a fiery shower falling thick and fast	K
Yea and horrible sounds were on the blast	K
Of crash and jar and shivering moan	N2
As of rending earth and all nature's groan	N2
Were sent to warn us the end was nigh	O
With awe struck gladness we looked around	O2
Waiting to hear the last trumpet sound	O2
From living death in that desolate Bay	B
We had sprung to welcome the judgment day	B
Although in the pit should our lot be cast	K
So that this our great woe should end at last	K
The bleak spring came the ice did part	P2
Devils entered each sailor's heart	P2
No blessed thoughts sweetened our wretched lives	F
Of the distant mother's sweethearts and wives	F
Of innocent pleasures we valued most	A
In the greenwood haunts of our childhood's home	S
In sweet English vale or bold Breton coast	A
That we left to sail on the salt sea foam	S
	-
We launched the boat we the wicked crew	I2
Strong in the evil we meant to do	I2
To leave the most helpless ones behind	Q2
The men who were loathsome sick and blind	Q2
We tumbled them in without sail or oar	A2
We forced in the captain and his son	M2
And when the horrible crime was done	M2
We mocked them and told them to go ashore	A2
O Mighty God of the sea and land	R
Where hadst Thou hidden Thy strong right hand	R
That this should happen under the sky	O
And be looked at by Thy All seeing eye	O
For we spread our sails to leave that spot	F2
Secure in that God regarded not	F2
As we steered the ship away away	B
From the boat that rocked on that dismal Bay	B
There arose from the wretches left behind	Q2
Helpless by famine sick and blind	Q2
A cry that would pierce through iron bars	F
The despairing groan	N2
Of those left alone	N2
Passed through the ranks of the shivering stars	F
To the dreadful God on His holy throne	N2
When out of that accursed Bay	B
Southward homeward we sailed away	B
We had favouring winds we hurried fast	K
Had our sails been of the hurricane's blast	K
Our guilt so surrounded and hemmed us in	R2
That we could not sail away from our sin	R2
For all nature knew that we had done	M2
The awfullest deed beneath the sun	M2
Our burning eyes were forbid to weep	S2
We lost the rest of the blessed sleep	S2
For scared by dreams and terrified	T2
By visions leaving us weary eyed	T2
We knew that the tempter's work was done	M2
We had staked our souls and the fiend had won	M2
	-
I stood one night at the wheel alone	N2
Stars in millions were in the sky	O
Every star an accusing eye	O
I heard again that horrible groan	N2
Of horror of helpless terror and pain	U2
I had hoped to nevermore hear again	E
The cry of those we had left alone	N2
	-
The sky was changed an angry glare	G2
Lit up the billows and through the air	G2
Flaming swords flashed in invisible hands	F
Ready to execute God's commands	F
The solemn light of the pale moon's glance	F
Glowed with the wrath of His countenance	F
At the far horizon shadowy things	F
Shod with the lightning with fiery wings	F
Were darting with messages to and fro	L
I saw them flitting on noiseless swift	V2
Through the holy vail of luminous mist	W
Where God was apportioning our woe	L
I knew the time had come when He meant	W2
To mete out to us our punishment	X2
An awful voice from the maintop fell	P
Where is the captain and sick of the crew	I2
It filled my brain with the pains of hell	P
The cold sweat started like drops of dew	I2
My hair stood up for over the side	T2
On the rolling swell of the heaving tide	T2
Gliding along on the crest of a wave	H
I saw in the moonlight's shimmering track	Y2
Our messmates the feeble sick and blind	Q2
That leagues away we had left behind	Q2
To the vessel groping their blind way back	Y2
Coming again to join the crew	I2
Led by the captain looking as brave	H
As full of command as he used to do	I2
	-
The wave heaved up to the bulwark's side	T2
And one after one they stepped on board	Z2
Dead men with eyes that opened wide	T2
With the stare of blindness gracious Lord	Z2
One of them groped his way abaft	Z2
And laid his swollen hand on the wheel	A3
His hand that in death was clammy and damp	B3
His blind eyes stared at the binnacle lamp	B3
As if the dead hand had nerves of steel	A3
He altered the ship's course in spite of me	F
Who could only stare at him and gasp	C3
For I was in the nightmare's grasp	C3
Fiends in the air around me laughed	Z2
But the dead man worked on all silently	F
Nor noticed the ecstacy of my fears	F
Yet he was a man I had known for years	F
A messmate at sea a comrade on shore	A2
And in jolly carouse in wassail roar	A2
My holiday time with him I spent	Z2
When I was of life blood innocent	Z2
But he never looked or spoke to me	F
But steered away from the open sea	F
Towards the shore beyond the desolate strait	Z2
Where suffering and crime had been so great	Z2
	-
Dead hands pulled the ropes and trimmed the sails	F
But no cheery cries the night wind hails	F
They worked the ship like men who slept	Z2
But steadily oh so steadily	F
They took in sail the watch they kept	Z2
And groped about blindly silently	F
Fore and aft on the waves swarmed fiendish things	F
Vile creatures that seemed to be heads with wings	F
Like a shoal of porpoises millions strong	G
Alive with motion that could not rest	Z2
Twisting out ropes from the breaker's crest	Z2
From the fleecy foam of the yeasty spray	B
With hands that appeared and vanished away	B
Chattering they towed the ship along	G
And we the living stood looking on	D3
Until that horrible night was gone	E3
	-
When the grey of dawn came in the sky	O
With a scream and a cheer the fiends vanished	Z2
Over the side filing silently	F
Went our messmates the corpses swollen and dead	Z2
Gliding over the waves with the vanishing night	Z2
Till the low clouds covered them up from our sight	Z2
	-
We like men who have got respite from pain	U2
Put about the ship toward home again	E
The sails swelled out with a favouring wind	Z2
The coast of horrors we left behind	Z2
And cheerily sailed in the blessed light	Z2
But the ghosts of the crew came back at night	Z2
Whatever distance we gained by day	B
They steered us back in the moonlight grey	B
	-
How it came to pass I can never tell	P
But I thought of God in the jaws of hell	P
Through my despair came the thought that He	F
Was a helper in extremity	F
For the first time in my wandering years	F
My burning eyes felt the bliss of tears	F
Like refreshing dew on soul and sense	F
Fell the softening grace of penitence	F
The Grace Divine that maketh whole	F3
Stole into the darkness of my soul	F3
	-
Sad thoughts were rising into prayer	G2
By the wheel on the night air chill and raw	G3
The ghost of my messmate stood by me	F
And looked in my face with eyes that saw	F
The blue lips said Be awake and aware	G2
The enchanted ship will touch the shore	A2
Fly then from us and you will be free	F
Your penance of suffering will be o'er	E2
But the rest for the deed that they have done	M2
Shall sail on without rest beneath the sun	M2
	-
I made my escape when we reached the shore	A2
And I saw the ship and the crew no more	A2
Alone I laid myself down to die	O
No human aid as I thought was nigh	O
I longed for death I was not afraid	Z2
I was found by roving hunter bands	F
Brought back to life by merciful hands	F
The hands of a dark skinned Indian maid	Z2
She nursed me with skill and tenderness	F
And recovered me from loathsomeness	F
But the day has come and the hours draw nigh	O
When I Louis Marin must surely die	O
I write down my crime that soon or late	Z2
The world may know Captain Hudson's fate	Z2
	-
I write of our crime and our sufferings	F
Of vengeance that follows remorse that stings	F
Messmates remember though crime is done	M2
In the lonest spot beneath the sun	M2
Where footstep of man has never trod	Z2
It's under the eye of an avenging God	Z2
He comes near a Swift Witness with intent	Z2
That they who sow crime shall reap punishment	Z2

Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)

Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme

Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation

<< A Legend Of Buckingham Village Poem Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People Poem>>

Write your comment about The Fate Of Henry Hudson poem by Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)

Best Poems of Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 0 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Dashaun ( Version #2 )
by Dashaun Snipes
Dashaun ( Version #1 )
by Dashaun Snipes
A High Succubus
by Dashaun Snipes
Aftermath
by Dashaun Snipes
Aftermath
by Dashaun Snipes
I've Got Me
by Dashaun Snipes
Predictions
by Marlon Pitter
Not All Women Are The Same
by Marlon Pitter
A Romance Between Junie And I Wasn't Meant To Be
by Marlon Pitter
Murderers
by Marlon Pitter

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)