To A Lady On Her Remarkable Preservation In A Hurrican In North-carolina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCDDEFGHIIJKLMNN GGOPCCQQRRSS| THOUGH thou did'st hear the tempest from afar | A |
| And felt'st the horrors of the wat'ry war | B |
| To me unknown yet on this peaceful shore | B |
| Methinks I hear the storm tumultuous roar | B |
| And how stern Boreas with impetuous hand | C |
| Compell'd the Nereids to usurp the land | C |
| Reluctant rose the daughters of the main | D |
| And slow ascending glided o'er the plain | D |
| Till AEolus in his rapid chariot drove | E |
| In gloomy grandeur from the vault above | F |
| Furious he comes His winged sons obey | G |
| Their frantic sire and madden all the sea | H |
| The billows rave the wind's fierce tyrant roars | I |
| And with his thund'ring terrors shakes the shores | I |
| Broken by waves the vessel's frame is rent | J |
| And strows with planks the wat'ry element | K |
| But thee Maria a kind Nereid's shield | L |
| Preserv'd from sinking and thy form upheld | M |
| And sure some heav'nly oracle design'd | N |
| At that dread crisis to instruct thy mind | N |
| Things of eternal consequence to weigh | G |
| And to thine heart just feelings to convey | G |
| Of things above and of the future doom | O |
| And what the births of the dread world to come | P |
| From tossing seas I welcome thee to land | C |
| Resign her Nereid 'twas thy God's command | C |
| Thy spouse late buried as thy fears conceiv'd | Q |
| Again returns thy fears are all reliev'd | Q |
| Thy daughter blooming with superior grace | R |
| Again thou see'st again thine arms embrace | R |
| O come and joyful show thy spouse his heir | S |
| And what the blessings of maternal care | S |
Phillis Wheatley
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