English 9 - Disaster Poems based on "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Write a 4 Stanza, 16 line, poem. For a B add the ABCB rhyming scheme to your work. For an A add the Longfellow rhythm. He does this by using different syllable counts. The example poem starts on page 125 in your textbook.