The Iceberg Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Iceberg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I was spawned from the glacier	A
A thousand miles due north	B
Beyond Cape Chidley	C
And the spawning	D
When my vast wallowing bulk went under	A
Emerged and heaved aloft	E
Shaking down cataracts from its rocking sides	F
With mountainous surge and thunder	A
Outraged the silence of the Arctic sea	G
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Before I was thrust forth	B
A thousand years I crept	H
Crawling crawling crawling irresistibly	G
Hid in the blue womb of the eternal ice	I
While under me the tortured rock	J
Groaned	K
And over me the immeasurable desolation slept	H
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Under the pallid dawning	D
Of the lidless Arctic day	L
Forever no life stirred	M
No wing of bird	M
Of ghostly owl low winnowing	D
Or fleet winged ptarmigan fleeing the pounce of death	N
No foot of backward glancing fox	O
Half glimpsed and vanishing like a breath	N
No lean and gauntly stalking bear	P
Stalking his prey	L
Only the white sun circling the white sky	Q
Only the wind screaming perpetually	G
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And then the night	R
The long night naked high over the roof of the world	S
Where time seemed frozen in the cold of space	T
Now black and torn with cry	Q
Of unseen voices where the storm raged by	Q
Now radiant with spectral light	R
As the vault of heaven split wide	U
To let the flaming Polar cohorts through	V
And close ranked spears of gold and blue	V
Thin scarlet and thin green	W
Hurtled and clashed across the sphere	X
And hissed in sibilant whisperings	T
And died	U
And then the stark moon swinging low	C
Silver indifferent serene	W
Over the sheeted snow	C
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But now an Alp afloat	Y
In seizure of the surreptitious tide	U
Began my long drift south to a remote	Y
And unimagined doom	Z
Scornful of storm	A2
Unjarred by thunderous buffetting of seas	T
Shearing the giant floes aside	U
Ploughing the wide flung ice fields in a spume	A2
That smoked far up my ponderous flanks	T
Onward I fared	B2
My ice blue pinnacles rendering back the sun	C2
In darts of sharp radiance	T
My bases fathoms deep in the dark profound	D2
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And now around me	A2
Life and the frigid waters all aswarm	A2
The smooth wave creamed	E2
With tiny capelin and the small pale squid	F2
So pale the light struck through them	A2
Gulls and gannets screamed	E2
Over the feast and gorged themselves and rose	T
A clamour of weaving wings and hid	F2
Momently my face	T
The great bull whales	T
With cavernous jaws agape	G2
Scooped in the spoil and slept	H
Their humped forms just awash and rocking softly	A2
Or sounded down down to the deeps and nosed	H2
Along my ribbed and sunken roots	T
And in the green gloom scattered the pasturing cod	I2
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And so I voyaged on down the dim parallels	T
Convoyed by fields	T
Of countless calving seals	T
Mild featured innocent eyed and unforeknowing	Q
The doom of the red flenching knives	T
I passed the storm racked gate	J2
Of Hudson Strait	J2
And savage Chidley where the warring tides	T
In white wrath seethe forever	A
Down along the sounding shore	K2
Of iron fanged many watered Labrador	K2
Slow weeks I shaped my course and saw	T
Dark Mokkowic and dark Napiskawa	L2
And came at last off lone Belle Isle the bane	M2
Of ships and snare of bergs	T
Here by the deep conflicting currents drawn	N2
I hung	Q
And swung	Q
The inland voices Gulfward calling me	A2
To ground amid my peers on the alien strand	O2
And roam no more	K2
But then an off shore wind	P2
A great wind fraught with fate	J2
Caught me and pressed me back	Q
And I resumed my solitary way	L2
	-
Slowly I bore	K2
South east by bastioned Bauld	J2
And passed the sentinel light far beaming late	J2
Along the liners' track	Q
And slanted out Atlanticwards until	C
Above the treacherous swaths of fog	Q
Faded from the view the loom of Newfoundland	J2
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Beautiful ethereal	C
In the blue sparkle of the gleaming day	J2
A soaring miracle	C
Of white immensity	J2
I was the cynosure of passing ships	T
That wondered and were gone	N2
Their wreathed smoke trailing them beyonf the verge	Q2
And when in the night they passed	J2
The night of stars and calm	A2
Forged up and passed with churning surge	Q2
And throb of huge propellers and long drawn	N2
Luminous wake behind	J2
And sharp small lights in rows	T
I lay a ghost of menace chill and still	C
A shape pearl pale and monstrous off to leeward	J2
Blurring the thin horizon line	R2
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	-
Day dragged on day	J2
And then came fog	Q
By noon blind white	J2
And in the night	J2
Black thick and smothering the sight	J2
Folded therein I waited	J2
Waited I knew not what	J2
And heeded not	J2
Greatly incurious and unconcerned	J2
I heard the small waves lapping along my base	T
Lipping and whispering lisping with bated breath	N
A casual expectancy of death	N
I heard remote	J2
The deep far carrying note	J2
Blown from the hoarse and hollow throat	J2
Of some lone tanker groping on her course	T
Louder and louder rose the sound	J2
In deepening diapason then passed on	S2
Diminishing and dying	Q
And silence closed around	J2
And in the silence came again	T2
Those stealthy voices	T
That whispering of death	N
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	-
And then I heard	J2
The thud of screws approaching	Q
Near and more near	X
Louder and yet more loud	J2
Through the thick dark I heard it	J2
The rush and hiss of waters as she ploughed	J2
Head on unseen unseeing	Q
Toward where I stood across her path invisible	C
And then a startled blare	P
Of horror close re echoing a glare	P
Of sudden stabbing searchlights	T
That but obscurely pierced the gloom	A2
And there	P
I towered a dim immensity of doom	A2
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	-
A roar	K2
Of tortured waters as the giant screws	T
Reversed thundered full steam astern	T2
Yet forward still she drew until	C
Slow answering desperate helm	A2
She swerved and all her broadside came in view	V
Crawling beneath me	A2
And for a moment I saw faces blanched	J2
Stiffly agape turned upward and wild eyes	T
Astare and one long quavering cry went up	U2
As a submerged horn gored her through and through	V
Ripping her beam wide open	T2
And sullenly she listed till her funnels	T
Crashed on my steep	V2
And men sprang stumbling for the boats	T
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But now my deep foundations	T
Mined by those warmer seas the hour had come	A2
When I must change	W2
Slowly I leaned above her	A
Slowly at first then faster	A
And icy fragments rained upon her decks	T
Then my enormous mass descended on her	A
A falling mountain all obliterating	Q
And the confusion of thin wailing cries	T
The Babel of shouts and prayers	T
And shriek of steam escaping	Q
Suddenly died	J2
And I rolled over	A
Wallowing	Q
And once more came to rest	J2
My long hid bases heaved up high in air	P
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And now from fogs emerging	Q
I traversed blander seas	T
Forgot the fogs the scourging	Q
Of sleet whipped gales forgot	J2
My austere origin my tremendous birth	X2
My journeyings and that last cataclysm	A2
Of overwhelming ruin	T2
My squat pale alien bulk	Q
Basked in the ambient sheen	T2
And all about me league on league outspread	J2
A gulf of indigo and green	T2
I laughed in the light waves laced with white	J2
Nor knew	V
How swiftly shrank my girth	X2
Under their sly caresses how the breath	N
Of that soft wind sucked up my strength nor how	Y2
The sweet insidious fingers of the sun	T2
Their stealthy depredations wrought upon me	A2
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Slowly now	Y2
I drifted dreaming	Q
I saw the flying fish	Z2
With silver gleaming	Q
Flash from the peacock bosomed wave	A3
And flicker through an arc of sunlit air	P
Back to their element desperate to elude	J2
The jaws of the pursuing albacore	K2
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Day after day	J2
I swung in the unhasting tide	J2
Sometimes I saw the dolphin folk at play	J2
Their lithe sides iridescent dyed	J2
Unheeding in their speed	J2
That long grey wraith	N
The shark that followed hungering beneath	N
Sometimes I	Q