Lines On The Loss Of The "titanic" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CDD EEE FFG HHH III JJJ AAA CDC BBB| In a solitude of the sea | A |
| Deep from human vanity | A |
| And the Pride of Life that planned her stilly couches she | A |
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| Steel chambers late the pyres | B |
| Of her salamandrine fires | B |
| Cold currents thrid and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres | B |
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| Over the mirrors meant | C |
| To glass the opulent | D |
| The sea worm crawls grotesque slimed dumb indifferent | D |
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| Jewels in joy designed | E |
| To ravish the sensuous mind | E |
| Lie lightless all their sparkles bleared and black and blind | E |
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| Dim moon eyed fishes near | F |
| Gaze at the gilded gear | F |
| And query What does this vaingloriousness down here | G |
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| Well while was fashioning | H |
| This creature of cleaving wing | H |
| The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything | H |
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| Prepared a sinister mate | I |
| For her so gaily great | I |
| A Shape of Ice for the time far and dissociate | I |
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| And as the smart ship grew | J |
| In stature grace and hue | J |
| In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too | J |
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| Alien they seemed to be | A |
| No mortal eye could see | A |
| The intimate welding of their later history | A |
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| Or sign that they were bent | C |
| By paths coincident | D |
| On being anon twin halves of one august event | C |
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| Till the Spinner of the Years | B |
| Said Now And each one hears | B |
| And consummation comes and jars two hemispheres | B |
Thomas Hardy
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