To Brooklyn Bridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGG FHIH JKLD MFNO FHPQ FRFR SFTC UFDF VWXW DYZY| How many dawns chill from his rippling rest | A |
| The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him | B |
| Shedding white rings of tumult building high | C |
| Over the chained bay waters Liberty | D |
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| Then with inviolate curve forsake our eyes | E |
| As apparitional as sails that cross | F |
| Some page of figures to be filed away | G |
| Till elevators dropp us from our day | G |
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| I think of cinemas panoramic sleights | F |
| With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene | H |
| Never disclosed but hastened to again | I |
| Foretold to other eyes on the same screen | H |
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| And Thee across the harbor silver paced | J |
| As though the sun took step of thee yet left | K |
| Some motion ever unspent in thy stride | L |
| Implicitly thy freedom staying thee | D |
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| Out of some subway scuttle cell or loft | M |
| A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets | F |
| Tilting there momently shrill shirt ballooning | N |
| A jest falls from the speechless caravan | O |
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| Down Wall from girder into street noon leaks | F |
| A rip tooth of the sky's acetylene | H |
| All afternoon the cloud flown derricks turn | P |
| Thy cables breathe the North Atlantic still | Q |
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| And obscure as that heaven of the Jews | F |
| Thy guerdon Accolade thou dost bestow | R |
| Of anonymity time cannot raise | F |
| Vibrant reprieve and pardon thou dost show | R |
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| O harp and altar of the fury fused | S |
| How could mere toil align thy choiring strings | F |
| Terrific threshold of the prophet's pledge | T |
| Prayer of pariah and the lover's cry | C |
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| Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift | U |
| Unfractioned idiom immaculate sigh of stars | F |
| Beading thy path condense eternity | D |
| And we have seen night lifted in thine arms | F |
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| Under thy shadow by the piers I waited | V |
| Only in darkness is thy shadow clear | W |
| The City's fiery parcels all undone | X |
| Already snow submerges an iron year | W |
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| O Sleepless as the river under thee | D |
| Vaulting the sea the prairies' dreaming sod | Y |
| Unto us lowliest sometime sweep descend | Z |
| And of the curveship lend a myth to God | Y |
Harold Hart Crane
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