The Word Of An Engineer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH CCGJKG LLMNNM OOHPQH

She's built of steelA
From deck to keelA
And bolted strong and tightB
In scorn she'll sailC
The fiercest galeC
And pierce the darkest nightB
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The builder's artD
Has proved each partD
Throughout her breadth and lengthE
Deep in the hulkF
Of her mighty bulkF
Ten thousand Titans' strengthE
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The tempest howlsG
The Ice Wolf prowlsG
The winds they shift and veerH
But calm I sleepI
And faith I keepI
In the word of an engineerH
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Along the trailC
Of the slender railC
The train like a nightmare fliesG
And dashes onJ
Through the black mouthed yawnK
Where the cavernous tunnel liesG
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Over the ridgeL
Across the bridgeL
Swung twixt the sky and hellM
On an iron threadN
Spun from the headN
Of the man in a draughtsman's cellM
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And so we rideO
Over land and tideO
Without a thought of fearH
Man never hadP
The faith in GodQ
That he has in an engineerH

James Weldon Johnson



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