The "alice Jean" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB BBEBBB BFGFBF HIBIJI KBGBLB MNCNON| One moonlit night a ship drove in | A |
| A ghost ship from the west | B |
| Drifting with bare mast and lone tiller | C |
| Like a mermaid drest | B |
| In long green weed and barnacles | D |
| She beached and came to rest | B |
| - | |
| All the watchers of the coast | B |
| Flocked to view the sight | B |
| Men and women streaming down | E |
| Through the summer night | B |
| Found her standing tall and ragged | B |
| Beached in the moonlight | B |
| - | |
| Then one old woman looked and wept | B |
| The 'Alice Jean' But no | F |
| The ship that took my Dick from me | G |
| Sixty years ago | F |
| Drifted back from the utmost west | B |
| With the ocean's flow | F |
| - | |
| Caught and caged in the weedy pool | H |
| Beyond the western brink | I |
| Where crewless vessels lie and rot | B |
| in waters black as ink | I |
| Torn out again by a sudden storm | J |
| Is it the 'Jean' you think | I |
| - | |
| A hundred women stared agape | K |
| The menfolk nudged and laughed | B |
| But none could find a likelier story | G |
| For the strange craft | B |
| With fear and death and desolation | L |
| Rigged fore and aft | B |
| - | |
| The blind ship came forgotten home | M |
| To all but one of these | N |
| Of whom none dared to climb aboard her | C |
| And by and by the breeze | N |
| Sprang to a storm and the Alice Jean | O |
| Foundered in frothy seas | N |
Robert Von Ranke Graves
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