Subway Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH| Far down down through the city's great gaunt gut | A |
| The gray train rushing bears the weary wind | B |
| In the packed cars the fans the crowd's breath cut | A |
| Leaving the sick and heavy air behind | B |
| And pale cheeked children seek the upper door | C |
| To give their summer jackets to the breeze | D |
| Their laugh is swallowed in the deafening roar | C |
| Of captive wind that moans for fields and seas | D |
| Seas cooling warm where native schooners drift | E |
| Through sleepy waters while gulls wheel and sweep | F |
| Waiting for windy waves the keels to lift | E |
| Lightly among the islands of the deep | F |
| Islands of lofty palm trees blooming white | G |
| That lend their perfume to the tropic sea | H |
| Where fields lie idle in the dew drenched night | G |
| And the Trades float above them fresh and free | H |
Claude Mckay
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