Big Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEBFGHIJKLMNOPQ RLSTUVBWXYZAA2

Where were the greenhouses goingA
Lunging into the lashingA
Wind driving waterB
So far down the riverB
All the faucets stoppedC
So we drained the manure machineD
For the steam plantE
Pumping the stale mixtureB
Into the rusty boilersF
Watching the pressure gaugeG
Waver over to redH
As the seams hissedI
And the live steamJ
Drove to the farK
End of the rose houseL
Where the worst wind wasM
Creaking the cypress window framesN
Cracking so much thin glassO
We stayed all nightP
Stuffing the holes with burlapQ
But she rode it outR
That old rose houseL
She hove into the teeth of itS
The core and pith of that ugly stormT
Ploughing with her stiff prowU
Bucking into the wind wavesV
That broke over the whole of herB
Flailing her sides with sprayW
Flinging long strings of wet across the roof topX
Finally veering wearing themselves out merelyY
Whistling thinly under the wind ventsZ
She sailed until the calm morningA
Carrying her full cargo of rosesA2

Theodore Roethke



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