A Tryst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KIKK LMLM NKNK OPOP QKQK KRKR SLSL TTTU VKVK KWKW XYXY KKKK ZXZX A2B2A2B2 XC2XC2| From out the desolation of the North | A |
| An iceberg took it away | B |
| From its detaining comrades breaking forth | A |
| And traveling night and day | B |
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| At whose command Who bade it sail the deep | C |
| With that resistless force | D |
| Who made the dread appointment it must keep | C |
| Who traced its awful course | D |
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| To the warm airs that stir in the sweet South | E |
| A good ship spread her sails | F |
| Stately she passed beyond the harbor's mouth | E |
| Chased by the favoring gales | F |
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| And on her ample decks a happy crowd | G |
| Bade the fair land good by | H |
| Clear shone the day with not a single cloud | G |
| In all the peaceful sky | H |
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| Brave men sweet women little children bright | I |
| For all these she made room | J |
| And with her freight of beauty and delight | I |
| She went to meet her doom | J |
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| Storms buffeted the iceberg spray was swept | K |
| Across its loftiest height | I |
| Guided alike by storm and calm it kept | K |
| Its fatal path aright | K |
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| Then warmer waves gnawed at its crumbling base | L |
| As if in piteous plea | M |
| The ardent sun sent slow tears down its face | L |
| Soft flowing to the sea | M |
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| Dawn kissed it with her tender rose tints Eve | N |
| Bathed it in violet | K |
| The wistful color o'er it seemed to grieve | N |
| With a divine regret | K |
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| Whether Day clad its clefts in rainbows dim | O |
| And shadowy as a dream | P |
| Or Night through lonely spaces saw it swim | O |
| White in the moonlight's gleam | P |
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| Ever Death rode upon its solemn heights | Q |
| Ever his watch he kept | K |
| Cold at its heart through changing days and nights | Q |
| Its changeless purpose slept | K |
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| And where afar a smiling coast it passed | K |
| Straightway the air grew chill | R |
| Dwellers thereon perceived a bitter blast | K |
| A vague report of ill | R |
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| Like some imperial creature moving slow | S |
| Meanwhile with matchless grace | L |
| The stately ship unconscious of her foe | S |
| Drew near the trysting place | L |
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| For still the prosperous breezes followed her | T |
| And half the voyage was o'er | T |
| In many a breast glad thoughts began to stir | T |
| Of lands that lay before | U |
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| And human hearts with longing love were dumb | V |
| That soon should cease to beat | K |
| Thrilled with the hope of meetings soon to come | V |
| And lost in memories sweet | K |
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| Was not the weltering waste of water wide | K |
| Enough for both to sail | W |
| What drew the two together o'er the tide | K |
| Fair ship and iceberg pale | W |
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| There came a night with neither moon nor star | X |
| Clouds draped the sky in black | Y |
| With fluttering canvas reefed at every spar | X |
| And weird fire in her track | Y |
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| The ship swept on a wild wind gathering fast | K |
| Drove her at utmost speed | K |
| Bravely she bent before the fitful blast | K |
| That shook her like a reed | K |
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| helmsman turn thy wheel Will no surmise | Z |
| Cleave through the midnight drear | X |
| No warning of the horrible surprise | Z |
| Reach thine unconscious ear | X |
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| She rushed upon her ruin Not a flash | A2 |
| Broke up the waiting dark | B2 |
| Dully through wind and sea one awful crash | A2 |
| Sounded with none to mark | B2 |
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| Scarcely her crew had time to clutch despair | X |
| So swift the work was done | C2 |
| Ere their pale lips could frame a speechless prayer | X |
| They perished every one | C2 |
Celia Thaxter
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