Gulf-stream. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDDDD EFEFE GHGIG JKJKJ LMLML| Lonely and cold and fierce I keep my way | A |
| Scourge of the lands companioned by the storm | B |
| Tossing to heaven my frontlet wild and gray | A |
| Mateless yet conscious ever of a warm | B |
| And brooding presence close to mine all day | A |
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| What is this alien thing so near so far | C |
| Close to my life always but blending never | D |
| Hemmed in by walls whose crystal gates unbar | D |
| Not at the instance of my strong endeavor | D |
| To pierce the stronghold where their secrets are | D |
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| Buoyant impalpable relentless thin | E |
| Rise the clear mocking walls I strive in vain | F |
| To reach the pulsing heart that beats within | E |
| Or with persistence of a cold disdain | F |
| To quell the gladness which I may not win | E |
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| Forever sundered and forever one | G |
| Linked by a bond whose spell I may not guess | H |
| Our hostile yet embracing currents run | G |
| Such wedlock lonelier is than loneliness | I |
| Baffled withheld I clasp the bride I shun | G |
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| Yet even in my wrath a wild regret | J |
| Mingles a bitterness of jealous strife | K |
| Tinges my fury as I foam and fret | J |
| Against the borders of that calmer life | K |
| Beside whose course my wrathful course is set | J |
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| But all my anger all my pain and woe | L |
| Are vain to daunt her gladness all the while | M |
| She goes rejoicing and I do not know | L |
| Catching the soft irradiance of her smile | M |
| If I am most her lover or her foe | L |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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