Outward Bound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STUT VWXY ZJA2J B2C2D2C2| A grievous day of wrathful winds | A |
| Of low hung clouds which scud and fly | B |
| And drop cold rains then lift and show | C |
| A sullen realm of upper sky | B |
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| The sea is black as night it roars | D |
| From lips afoam with cruel spray | E |
| Like some fierce many throated pack | F |
| Of wolves which scents and chases prey | E |
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| Crouched in my little wind swept nook | G |
| I hear the menacing voices call | H |
| And shudder as above the deck | I |
| Topples and swings the weltering wall | H |
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| It seems a vast and restless grave | J |
| Insatiate hungry beckoning | K |
| With dreadful gesture of command | L |
| To every free and living thing | K |
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| O Lord I cry Thou makest life | M |
| And hope and all sweet things to be | N |
| Rebuke this hovering following Death | O |
| This horror never born of Thee | N |
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| A sudden gleam the waves light up | P |
| With radiant momentary hues | Q |
| Amber and shadowy pearl and gold | R |
| Opal and green and unknown blues | Q |
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| And rising on the tossing walls | S |
| Within the foaming valleys swung | T |
| Soft shapes of sea birds dimly seen | U |
| Flutter and float and call their young | T |
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| A moment then the lowering clouds | V |
| Settle anew above the main | W |
| The colors die the waves rise higher | X |
| And night and terror rule again | Y |
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| No more I see the small dim shapes | Z |
| So unafraid of wind and wave | J |
| Nestling beneath the tempest's roar | A2 |
| Cradled in what I deemed a grave | J |
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| But all night long I lay and smiled | B2 |
| At thought of those soft folded wings | C2 |
| And trusting with the trustful birds | D2 |
| In Him who cares for smallest things | C2 |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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