Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFEEEEFEFE GHGHIIII| I love not when the oily seas | A |
| Heave huge and slow beneath the sun | B |
| When decks are hot and dead the breeze | A |
| And wits are dropping one by one | B |
| But when the South wind fiercely breaks | C |
| His frozen bonds and rushes forth | D |
| Across the roaring sea and shakes | C |
| His icy spear against the North | D |
| When breakers thunder on the lee | E |
| When timbers crash and sails are rent | F |
| When wild and louder grows the sea | E |
| And black the reeling firmament | F |
| O then at last my soul awakes | E |
| A thousand joys within her rise | E |
| And all the bounds of sense she breaks | E |
| To soar exulting through the skies | E |
| I love not when my ship of Fate | F |
| Glides on before some fragrant breeze | E |
| And slowly tracks with costly freight | F |
| The sapphire deeps of prosperous seas | E |
| But when beneath the sky of death | G |
| She staggers through the seas of pain | H |
| When passion's hot tempestuous breath | G |
| Through shroud and tackle shrieks amain | H |
| When deepening glooms the day o'erwhelm | I |
| And all is one wild wreck of form | I |
| O then resolved I grasp the helm | I |
| And proudly guide her through the storm | I |
William Gay
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