Casabianca (poem)
"Casabianca" is a poem by British poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in the New Monthly Magazine for August 1826.
The poem opens:
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- The boy stood on the burning deck
- Whence all but he had fled;
- The flame that lit the battle's wreck
- Shone round him o'er the dead.
It is written in ballad meter, rhyming abab.
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