The Cataclysm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCCD| When a great wave disturbs the ocean cold | A |
| And throws the bottom waters to the sky | B |
| Strange apparitions on the surface lie | B |
| Great battered vessels stripped of gloss and gold | A |
| And writhing in their pain sea monsters old | A |
| Who stain the waters with a bloody dye | B |
| With unaccustomed mouths bellow and cry | B |
| And vex the waves with struggling fin and fold | A |
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| And with these too come little trivial things | C |
| Tossed from the deeps by the same casual hand | D |
| A faint sea flower dragged from the lowest sand | D |
| That will not undulate its luminous wings | C |
| In the slow tides again lies dead and swings | C |
| Along the muddy ripples to the land | D |
Edward Shanks
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