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Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God.

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  • Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God. (en)
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  • Oh, I was plungingref|Changes heighten the emotional quality and substitute a more vividly specific image.|group=lower-alpha to despair. (en)
  • "The ribsref|Substitution for "Death" makes natural the substitution in the next line.|group=lower-alpha and terrors in the whale, (en)
  • And left me deepening down to doomref|Added assonance and alliteration.|group=lower-alpha. (en)
  • "In black distress, I called my God, (en)
  • "My song for ever shall record (en)
  • "With speed he flew to my relief, (en)
  • "I saw the opening mawref|Substitution to sustain the whale imagery.|group=lower-alpha of hell, (en)
  • And give the glory to the Lord, (en)
  • And made my sinking soul afraid. (en)
  • As on a cherub's wings he rode: (en)
  • Awful and bright as lightning shone (en)
  • Archedref|Substitution for "Spread" prepared by the preceding substitution.|group=lower-alpha over me a dismal gloomref|Rhyme change enables alliteration and assonance of the stanza's final line.|group=lower-alpha, (en)
  • Due to his mercy and his pow'r. (en)
  • I give the glory to my Godref|Substitution for "Lord" loses the rhyme with "record."|group=lower-alpha, (en)
  • He bow'd his ear to my complaints; (en)
  • He bowed his ear to my complaints-- (en)
  • Spread over me their dismal shade; (en)
  • That terrible, that joyful hour; (en)
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