Hatteras Calling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEAEAFGFGHIHI EJEJ| Southeast and storm and every weather vane | A |
| shivers and moans upon its dripping pin | B |
| ragged on chimneys the cloud whips the rain | A |
| howls at the flues and windows to get in | B |
| the golden rooster claps his golden wings | C |
| and from the Baptist Chapel shrieks no more | D |
| the golden arrow in the southeast sings | C |
| and hears on the roof the Atlantic Ocean roar | D |
| Waves among wires sea scudding over poles | E |
| down every alley the magnificence of rain | A |
| dead gutters live once more the deep manholes | E |
| hollow in triumph a passage to the main | A |
| Umbrellas and in the Gardens one old man | F |
| hurries away along a dancing path | G |
| listens to music on a watering can | F |
| observes among the tulips the sudden wrath | G |
| pale willows thrashing to the needled lake | H |
| and dinghies filled with water while the sky | I |
| smashes the lilacs swoops to shake and break | H |
| till shattered branches shriek and railings cry | I |
| Speak Hatteras your language of the sea | E |
| scour with kelp and spindrift the stale street | J |
| that man in terror may learn once more to be | E |
| child of that hour when rock and ocean meet | J |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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