From The Woolworth Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHIJKEL M NOFKPEQRASTUVWXYZA2K AEB2EFC2 ED2B2E2F2G2H2F2F2I2J 2EF2LK2QL2M2B2N2TI2O 2P2Q2F2 F2F2EQ2F2EF2B2| Vivid with love eager for greater beauty | A |
| Out of the night we come | B |
| Into the corridor brilliant and warm | C |
| A metal door slides open | D |
| And the lift receives us | E |
| Swiftly with sharp unswerving flight | F |
| The car shoots upward | G |
| And the air swirling and angry | A |
| Howls like a hundred devils | H |
| Past the maze of trim bronze doors | I |
| Steadily we ascend | J |
| I cling to you | K |
| Conscious of the chasm under us | E |
| And a terrible whirring deafens my ears | L |
| - | |
| The flight is ended | M |
| - | |
| We pass thru a door leading onto the ledge | N |
| Wind night and space | O |
| Oh terrible height | F |
| Why have we sought you | K |
| Oh bitter wind with icy invisible wings | P |
| Why do you beat us | E |
| Why would you bear us away | Q |
| We look thru the miles of air | R |
| The cold blue miles between us and the city | A |
| Over the edge of eternity we look | S |
| On all the lights | T |
| A thousand times more numerous than the stars | U |
| Oh lines and loops of light in unwound chains | V |
| That mark for miles and miles | W |
| The vast black mazy cobweb of the streets | X |
| Near us clusters and splashes of living gold | Y |
| That change far off to bluish steel | Z |
| Where the fragile lights on the Jersey shore | A2 |
| Tremble like drops of wind stirred dew | K |
| The strident noises of the city | A |
| Floating up to us | E |
| Are hallowed into whispers | B2 |
| Ferries cross thru the darkness | E |
| Weaving a golden thread into the night | F |
| Their whistles weird shadows of sound | C2 |
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| We feel the millions of humanity beneath us | E |
| The warm millions moving under the roofs | D2 |
| Consumed by their own desires | B2 |
| Preparing food | E2 |
| Sobbing alone in a garret | F2 |
| With burning eyes bending over a needle | G2 |
| Aimlessly reading the evening paper | H2 |
| Dancing in the naked light of the caf eacute | F2 |
| Laying out the dead | F2 |
| Bringing a child to birth | I2 |
| The sorrow the torpor the bitterness the frail joy | J2 |
| Come up to us | E |
| Like a cold fog wrapping us round | F2 |
| Oh in a hundred years | L |
| Not one of these blood warm bodies | K2 |
| But will be worthless as clay | Q |
| The anguish the torpor the toil | L2 |
| Will have passed to other millions | M2 |
| Consumed by the same desires | B2 |
| Ages will come and go | N2 |
| Darkness will blot the lights | T |
| And the tower will be laid on the earth | I2 |
| The sea will remain | O2 |
| Black and unchanging | P2 |
| The stars will look down | Q2 |
| Brilliant and unconcerned | F2 |
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| Beloved | F2 |
| Tho' sorrow futility defeat | F2 |
| Surround us | E |
| They cannot bear us down | Q2 |
| Here on the abyss of eternity | F2 |
| Love has crowned us | E |
| For a moment | F2 |
| Victors | B2 |
Sara Teasdale
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