Out In The Cold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEEDFFBCBCGGCCHH IJKLLKIJMNONPPQRAAII SSOTUUVVWWIIXYAYZZHH A2IB2IFAC2AZD2E2D2F2 G2F2G2HHSuggested by reading Lights and Shades in San Francisco | A |
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Out from a narrow crowded street | B |
Sick'ning resort of shame and crime | C |
Wearing upon her brow a curse | D |
Out in the darkness lost to sight | E |
Out in the dreary Winter night | E |
Fleeing a fate than Nessus worse | D |
On through the gathering mist and dew | F |
'Till the fog wrapped city is hid from view | F |
'Till the rugged cliffs with the waters meet | B |
And the mingled voices from every clime | C |
And the hurrying tramp of reckless feet | B |
Are drowned in the breakers' sobbing rhyme | C |
But farther out than this ocean beach | G |
Farther than Charity's hands will reach | G |
Farther than Pity dares to come | C |
Is she who rushes with white lips dumb | C |
To repeat the tale that too oft is told | H |
Out in the cold | H |
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From the loathesome dens whose scenes appal | I |
Whose tainted breath's the Simoom's blast | J |
Away on the dizzying surf washed rock | K |
Pausing a moment upon the brink | L |
Pausing a moment perchance to think | L |
Sliding the bolt in Memory's lock | K |
And back in its dusty haunted hall | I |
Living again the vanished past | J |
Living her happy childhood o'er | M |
Chasing the butterflies over the flowers | N |
Petted and loved a girl again | O |
Dreaming away the golden hours | N |
Living again another scene | P |
Flattered and toasted beauty's queen | P |
Taking again with a merry laugh | Q |
From gallant hands a sparkling draught | R |
O angels tell her 'tis a draught of woe | A |
That ruin lies in its amber glow | A |
Over the rest let oblivion fall | I |
Cover it up with a funeral pall | I |
Turn away with a shudder and groan | S |
Let her live it over alone | S |
Few are the months as they count since then | O |
Short and joyous they else had been | T |
That to anguished heart and maddened brain | U |
Are long decades of woe and pain | U |
Over again on the wings of thought | V |
Treading the path which her ruin wrought | V |
Over again each step she went | W |
From the sunny home to the swift descent | W |
Where sin lies hidden 'neath a gilded pile | I |
Down to the haunts of the low and vile | I |
One more step and it all is done | X |
Only a shriek the midnight breaks | Y |
Only a splash in the waves below | A |
A wider ripple the water makes | Y |
The rock is bare by the ocean side | Z |
A death white face with the ebbing tide | Z |
Is floating away from the headland bold | H |
Out in the cold | H |
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A lifeless form in the wintry dawn | A2 |
Left on the sand by a rising swell | I |
A story of weakness shame and wrong | B2 |
Mutely the frozen features tell | I |
Noiseless falls on it the tears of dew | F |
Over it softly the breezes blow | A |
Wavelets kissing the tangled hair | C2 |
Murmur a requiem sad and low | A |
Out to the barren bleak hillside | Z |
Rough hands bear it with scorn and jest | D2 |
Cradled once in a mother's arms | E2 |
Once by a mother's fond lips pressed | D2 |
Under the clods of a new made grave | F2 |
A rough hewn board at the foot and head | G2 |
Where never a flower of love shall wave | F2 |
Left with the city's nameless dead | G2 |
Left with her fate unwept untold | H |
Out in the cold | H |
Madge Morris Wagner
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