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What is happening in this poem. It is called The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled; The flame that out the batter's wreck Shone round him I've the dead. The other one is Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.

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"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 deck: Whence all but him had fled;: The flame that lit the battle's wreck: Shone round him o'er the dead. ... Yet beautiful and bright he stood,: As born to rule the storm;: