Casabianca (poem)

"Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in The Monthly Magazine, Vol 2, August 1826. The poem starts: The boy stood on the burning deckWhence all but he had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead. It is written in ballad meter, rhyming abab.It is about the true story of a boy who was obedient enough to wait for his father's orders, not knowing that his father is no longer alive.

Casabianca (poem)

"Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in The Monthly Magazine, Vol 2, August 1826. The poem starts: The boy stood on the burning deckWhence all but he had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead. It is written in ballad meter, rhyming abab.It is about the true story of a boy who was obedient enough to wait for his father's orders, not knowing that his father is no longer alive.