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High Seas (O Captain, My Captain)

The Taunting Métis

a Vessel i saw,
of the Clouds of the Sky,
rising up from the Sunset
and into the Night:
a great Ship of Grey
no Wave could o’erwhelm;
billowing Steam;
but just One at the Helm
to lovingly lead Her
into the later Light.

About this poem

Composed entirely at the park, written down only when I got home, inspired by… you guessed it, a cloud that looked like a ship. Only nouns are capitalized because those are what struck me as most important to the poem.

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Written on August 01, 2022

Submitted by freemicah on August 02, 2022

Modified on April 11, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFFFGD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 220
Words 49
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
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