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The Titanic

Thomas Harvey

Free verse
1912
came to be
A ship out on
the open sea
Like a nightmare's
hellish dream
An iceberg ripped
Titanic's seam
Inch by inch
the water rose
From where it came
no one knows
Lifeboats launched
few were saved
Some went to
a water grave
It was said
the band played on
Right up till
the ship was gone

About this poem

This poem is about the RMS Titanic. A British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912.

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Submitted by iamhmg on June 30, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFEGDHDIJKLMCNO
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 273
Words 59
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
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