The Last Buccaneer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBF FBGB FBHF FIFI FBFB| The winds were yelling the waves were swelling | A |
| The sky was black and drear | B |
| When the crew with eyes of flame brought the ship without a name | C |
| Alongside the last Buccaneer | B |
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| quot Whence flies your sloop full sail before so fierce a gale | D |
| When all others drive bare on the seas | E |
| Say come ye from the shore of the holy Salvador | B |
| Or the gulf of the rich Caribbees quot | F |
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| quot From a shore no search hath found from a gulf no line can sound | F |
| Without rudder or needle we steer | B |
| Above below our bark dies the sea fowl and the shark | G |
| As we fly by the last Buccaneer | B |
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| quot To night there shall be heard on the rocks of Cape de Verde | F |
| A loud crash and a louder roar | B |
| And to morrow shall the deep with a heavy moaning sweep | H |
| The corpses and wreck to the shore quot | F |
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| The stately ship of Clyde securely now may ride | F |
| In the breath of the citron shades | I |
| And Severn's towering mast securely now flies fast | F |
| Through the sea of the balmy Trades | I |
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| From St Jago's wealthy port from Havannah's royal fort | F |
| The seaman goes forth without fear | B |
| For since that stormy night not a mortal hath had sight | F |
| Of the flag of the last Buccaneer | B |
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
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