Captain Teach Alias Black Beard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHIIJK LMNN OPQQ RREE NNNN SSTTUUVV SSWW IIII| Edward Teach was a native of Bristol and sailed from that port | A |
| On board a privateer in search of sport | A |
| As one of the crew during the French War in that station | B |
| And for personal courage he soon gained his Captain's approbation | B |
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| 'Twas in the spring of Captajn Harnigold and Teach sailed from Providence | C |
| For the continent of America and no further hence | D |
| And in their way captured a vessel laden with flour | E |
| Which they put on board their own vessels in the space of an hour | E |
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| They also seized two other vessels snd took some gallons of wine | F |
| Besides plunder to a considerable value and most of it most costly design | F |
| And after that they made a prize of a large French Guinea man | G |
| Then to act an independent part Teach now began | G |
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| But the news spread throughout America far and near | H |
| And filled many of the inhabitants' hearts with fear | H |
| But Lieutenant Maynard with his sloops of war directly steered | I |
| And left James River on the th November in quest of Black Beard | I |
| And on the evening of the st came in sight of the pirate | J |
| And when Black Beard spied his sloops he felt elate | K |
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| When he saw the sloops sent to apprehend him | L |
| He didn't lose his courage but fiendishly did grin | M |
| And told his men to cease from drinking and their tittle tattle | N |
| Although he had only twenty men on board and prepare for battle | N |
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| In case anything should happen to him during the engagement | O |
| One of his men asked him who felt rather discontent | P |
| Whether his wife knew where he had buried his pelf | Q |
| When he impiously replied that nobody knew but the devil and himself | Q |
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| In the Morning Maynard weighed and sent his boat to sound | R |
| Which coming near the pirate unfortunately ran aground | R |
| But Maynard lightened his vessel of the ballast and water | E |
| Whilst from the pirates' ship small shot loudly did clatter | E |
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| But the pirates' small shot or slugs didn't Maynard appal | N |
| He told his men to take their cutlasses and be ready upon his call | N |
| And to conceal themselves every man below | N |
| While he would remain at the helm and face the foe | N |
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| Then Black Beard cried They're all knocked on the head | S |
| When he saw no hand upon deck he thought they were dead | S |
| Then Black Beard boarded Maynard'a sloop without dismay | T |
| But Maynard's men rushed upon deck then began the deadly fray | T |
| Then Black Beard and Maynard engaged sword in hand | U |
| And the pirate fought manfully and made a bold stand | U |
| And Maynard with twelve men and Black Beard with fourteen | V |
| Made the most desperate and bloody conflict that ever was seen | V |
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| At last with shots and wounds the pirate fell down dead | S |
| Then from his body Maynard severed the pirate's head | S |
| And suspended it upon his bowsprit end | W |
| And thanked God Who so mercifully did him defend | W |
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| Black Beard derived his name from his long black beard | I |
| Which terrified America more than any comet that had ever appeared | I |
| But thanks be to God in this age we need not be afeared | I |
| Of any such pirates as the inhuman Black Beard | I |
William Topaz Mcgonagall
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