Out In The Cold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEEDFFBCBCGGCCHH IJKLLKIJMNONPPQRAAII SSOTUUVVWWIIXYAYZZHH A2IB2IFAC2AZD2E2D2F2 G2F2G2HH

Suggested by reading Lights and Shades in San FranciscoA
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Out from a narrow crowded streetB
Sick'ning resort of shame and crimeC
Wearing upon her brow a curseD
Out in the darkness lost to sightE
Out in the dreary Winter nightE
Fleeing a fate than Nessus worseD
On through the gathering mist and dewF
'Till the fog wrapped city is hid from viewF
'Till the rugged cliffs with the waters meetB
And the mingled voices from every climeC
And the hurrying tramp of reckless feetB
Are drowned in the breakers' sobbing rhymeC
But farther out than this ocean beachG
Farther than Charity's hands will reachG
Farther than Pity dares to comeC
Is she who rushes with white lips dumbC
To repeat the tale that too oft is toldH
Out in the coldH
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From the loathesome dens whose scenes appalI
Whose tainted breath's the Simoom's blastJ
Away on the dizzying surf washed rockK
Pausing a moment upon the brinkL
Pausing a moment perchance to thinkL
Sliding the bolt in Memory's lockK
And back in its dusty haunted hallI
Living again the vanished pastJ
Living her happy childhood o'erM
Chasing the butterflies over the flowersN
Petted and loved a girl againO
Dreaming away the golden hoursN
Living again another sceneP
Flattered and toasted beauty's queenP
Taking again with a merry laughQ
From gallant hands a sparkling draughtR
O angels tell her 'tis a draught of woeA
That ruin lies in its amber glowA
Over the rest let oblivion fallI
Cover it up with a funeral pallI
Turn away with a shudder and groanS
Let her live it over aloneS
Few are the months as they count since thenO
Short and joyous they else had beenT
That to anguished heart and maddened brainU
Are long decades of woe and painU
Over again on the wings of thoughtV
Treading the path which her ruin wroughtV
Over again each step she wentW
From the sunny home to the swift descentW
Where sin lies hidden 'neath a gilded pileI
Down to the haunts of the low and vileI
One more step and it all is doneX
Only a shriek the midnight breaksY
Only a splash in the waves belowA
A wider ripple the water makesY
The rock is bare by the ocean sideZ
A death white face with the ebbing tideZ
Is floating away from the headland boldH
Out in the coldH
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A lifeless form in the wintry dawnA2
Left on the sand by a rising swellI
A story of weakness shame and wrongB2
Mutely the frozen features tellI
Noiseless falls on it the tears of dewF
Over it softly the breezes blowA
Wavelets kissing the tangled hairC2
Murmur a requiem sad and lowA
Out to the barren bleak hillsideZ
Rough hands bear it with scorn and jestD2
Cradled once in a mother's armsE2
Once by a mother's fond lips pressedD2
Under the clods of a new made graveF2
A rough hewn board at the foot and headG2
Where never a flower of love shall waveF2
Left with the city's nameless deadG2
Left with her fate unwept untoldH
Out in the coldH

Madge Morris Wagner



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