The Storm Cone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHI JKLL MNDD| This is the midnight let no star | A |
| Delude us dawn is very far | A |
| This is the tempest long foretold | B |
| Slow to make head but sure to hold | B |
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| Stand by The lull 'twixt blast and blast | C |
| Signals the storm is near not past | C |
| And worse than present jeopardy | D |
| May our forlorn to morrow be | D |
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| If we have cleared the expectant reef | E |
| Let no man look for his relief | E |
| Only the darkness hides the shape | F |
| Of further peril to escape | F |
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| It is decreed that we abide | G |
| The weight of gale against the tide | G |
| And those huge waves the outer main | H |
| Sends in to set us back again | I |
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| They fall and whelm We strain to hear | J |
| The pulses of her labouring gear | K |
| Till the deep throb beneath us proves | L |
| After each shudder and check she moves | L |
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| She moves with all save purpose lost | M |
| To make her offing from the coast | N |
| But till she fetches open sea | D |
| Let no man deem that he is free | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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