The Derelict Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDEED FFGHHG IIHJJH KLMNNO HHEHHE PPAQQA RRHSSH TTDCCD FFGHHG| And reports the derelict Mary Pollock still at sea | A |
| SHIPPING NEWS | B |
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| I was the staunchest of our fleet | C |
| Till the sea rose beneath our feet | C |
| Unheralded in hatred past all measure | D |
| Into his pits he stamped my crew | E |
| Buffeted blinded bound and threw | E |
| Bidding me eyeless wait upon his pleasure | D |
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| Man made me and my will | F |
| Is to my maker still | F |
| Whom now the currents con the rollers steer | G |
| Lifting forlorn to spy | H |
| Trailed smoke along the sky | H |
| Falling afraid lest any keel come near | G |
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| Wrenched as the lips of thirst | I |
| Wried dried and split and burst | I |
| Bone bleached my decks wind scoured to the graining | H |
| And jarred at every roll | J |
| The gear that was my soul | J |
| Answers the anguish of my beams' complaining | H |
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| For life that crammed me full | K |
| Gangs of the prying gull | L |
| That shriek and scrabble on the riven hatches | M |
| For roar that dumbed the gale | N |
| My hawse pipes guttering wail | N |
| Sobbing my heart out through the uncounted watches | O |
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| Blind in the hot blue ring | H |
| Through all my points I swing | H |
| Swing and return to shift the sun anew | E |
| Blind in my well known sky | H |
| I hear the stars go by | H |
| Mocking the prow that cannot hold one true | E |
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| White on my wasted path | P |
| Wave after wave in wrath | P |
| Frets 'gainst his fellow warring where to send me | A |
| Flung forward heaved aside | Q |
| Witless and dazed I bide | Q |
| The mercy of the comber that shall end me | A |
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| North where the bergs careen | R |
| The spray of seas unseen | R |
| Smokes round my head and freezes in the falling | H |
| South where the corals breed | S |
| The footless floating weed | S |
| Folds me and fouls me strake on strake upcrawling | H |
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| I that was clean to run | T |
| My race against the sun | T |
| Strength on the deep am bawd to all disaster | D |
| Whipped forth by night to meet | C |
| My sister's careless feet | C |
| And with a kiss betray her to my master | D |
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| Man made me and my will | F |
| Is to my maker still | F |
| To him and his our peoples at their pier | G |
| Lifting in hope to spy | H |
| Trailed smoke along the sky | H |
| Falling afraid lest any keel come near | G |
Rudyard Kipling
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