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The Cruise Of The 'in Memoriam' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The wan light of a stormy dawn	A
Gleamed on a tossing ship	B
It was the In Memoriam	C
Upon a mourning trip	B
Wild waves were on the windward bow	D
And breakers on the lee	E
And through her sides the women heard	F
The seething of the sea	E
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O Captain cried a widow fair	G
Her plump white hands clasped she	E
Thinkst thou if drowned in this dread storm	C
That sav d we shall be	E
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You speak in riddles lady dear	H
How sav d can we be	E
If we are drowned Alas I mean	I
In Paradise said she	E
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O I ve sailed North and I ve sailed South	J
He was a godless wight	K
But boy or man since my days began	L
That shore I ne er did sight	K
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The Captain told the First Mate bold	M
What that fair lady said	N
The First Mate sneered in his black beard	O
His eyes burned in his head	N
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Full forty souls are here aboard	P
A sailing on the wave	Q
Without the crew and twixt us two	R
I think they ve none to save	Q
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Full forty souls and each one is	S
A mourner as you know	T
They weep the scuppers full the ship	B
Is waterlogged with woe	T
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Again he sneered in his black beard	O
The cruise is not so brief	U
But ere we land on earthly strand	V
All will have found relief	U
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Nay nay the Captain said First Mate	W
You have forgotten one	X
With eyes of blue the tears are true	R
From those dear eyes that run	X
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She mourns her sweetheart drowned last year	H
A seaman he forsooth	J
I would not drown for Christ his crown	Y
If she were mine Fair Ruth	J
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Brave words but words the First Mate cried	Z
Are wind Behold in me	E
The warmest lover and the last	A2
Mine shall the maiden be	E
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Fair Ruth stood by the taffrail high	B2
A cross dropped in the sea	E
If you lie here my sweetheart dear	H
By this remember me	E
Fair Ruth stood by the taffrail high	B2
A ring dropped in the sea	E
Marry him not ye false mermaids	C2
Married he s now to me	E
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The heavens flashed flame a black cloud came	C
Its wings the sky did span	L
And hovered above the fated ship	B
Like death o er a dying man	L
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Bended the spars and shrieked the shrouds	D2
The sails flew from the mast	A2
And like a soul by fiends pursued	E2
The ship fled through the blast	A2
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More sail more sail the First Mate cried	Z
The Captain stood aghast	A2
More sail more sail and he laughed in scorn	F2
All by the mizen mast	A2
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O brethren dear there s nought to fear	H
The steward told me so	T
Twas the parson meek who thus did speak	G2
Just come up from below	T
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And were there he said with upraised head	N
And hands clasped piously	E
I have a sainted spouse in Heaven	X
I trow she waits for me	E
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Then grimly laughed the false First Mate	W
Good parson let her be	E
I ve a wife in every port but that	H2
And that we shall not see	E
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Oh pardon seek cried the parson meek	G2
And pray if pray you can	L
For much I fear by your scornful sneer	H
That you are a sinful man	L
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Then louder laughed the false First Mate	W
Louder and louder still	I2
And the wicked crew laughed loudly too	R
As wicked seamen will	I2
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O Captain whispered a gentle dame	C
When shall we see the land	V
The Captain answered never a word	F
But clasped her by the hand	V
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Day after day night after night	K
On on the ship did reel	J2
The Captain drank with the second mate	W
The First Mate held the wheel	J2
Down came a black cloud on the ship	B
And wrapped her like a pall	K2
And horror of awful darkness fell	L2
Upon them one and all	M2
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The night had swallowed them utterly	E
None could his fellow see	E
But ghostly voices up and down	Y
Went whispering fearsomely	E
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No faint ray shone from moon or sun	X
The light of Heaven was gone	A
But ever the First Mate held the wheel	E
And ever the ship rushed on	N2
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Fair Ruth knelt down in that grim gloom	C
She prayed beneath her breath	J
God carry me o er this dread sea	E
That seems the Sea of Death	J
She ceased and lo a lurid glow	E
O er that dark water spread	N
And in the blackness burned afar	O2
A line of bloody red	N
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What lights are yon the Captain said	N
The First Mate answered then	P2
No lights that ever shone upon	N2
The world of living men	P2
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Down on your knees the parson cried	Z
Thank God for all is well	E
The First Mate laughed Those lights they are	O2
The harbour lights of Hell	E
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On flew the ship to every lip	B
An ashen pallor came	C
For all might see that suddenly	E
The sea had turned to flame	C
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The lights were near the Sea of Fear	H
Amid the silence dire	Q2
On that dread shore broke evermore	R2
In soundless foam of fire	S2
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Oh what are yon gray ghosts and wan	N2
The parson cried who seem	C
With coloured strings of beads to play	E
As in a dreadful dream	C
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Damned souls the First Mate said they sit	T2
And count through endless years	U2
The moments of Eternity	E
On beads of burning tears	V2
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Then Who are you the parson said	N
That talk so free of Hell	E
My name is Satan he replied	Z
Have I not steered you well	E
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Back back the yards the Captain cried	Z
Then quoth the false First Mate	W
Like many more who sight this shore	R2
You back your yards too late	W
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There are the dear deceased you mourned	W2
With such exceeding zest	X2
They call you whoso freely goes	Y2
E en yet may save the rest	X2
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One pale ghost waved the vessel back	Z2
With gestures sad and dumb	C
Fair Ruth has plunged into the sea	E
My love my love I come	C
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All in a moment shone the sun	X
Blue gleamed the sky and sea	E
The brave old ship upon the waves	A3
Was dancing merrily	E
And merrily to sound of bells	B3
To her old port full soon	C3
The In Memoriam that went forth	J
Returned the Honeymoon	C3
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There o er their grog sea captains still	E
Her wondrous story tell	E
And how her Captain backed his yards	D3
A biscuit throw from Hell	E