Big Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEBFGHIJKLMNOPQ RLSTUVBWXYZAA2Where were the greenhouses going | A |
Lunging into the lashing | A |
Wind driving water | B |
So far down the river | B |
All the faucets stopped | C |
So we drained the manure machine | D |
For the steam plant | E |
Pumping the stale mixture | B |
Into the rusty boilers | F |
Watching the pressure gauge | G |
Waver over to red | H |
As the seams hissed | I |
And the live steam | J |
Drove to the far | K |
End of the rose house | L |
Where the worst wind was | M |
Creaking the cypress window frames | N |
Cracking so much thin glass | O |
We stayed all night | P |
Stuffing the holes with burlap | Q |
But she rode it out | R |
That old rose house | L |
She hove into the teeth of it | S |
The core and pith of that ugly storm | T |
Ploughing with her stiff prow | U |
Bucking into the wind waves | V |
That broke over the whole of her | B |
Flailing her sides with spray | W |
Flinging long strings of wet across the roof top | X |
Finally veering wearing themselves out merely | Y |
Whistling thinly under the wind vents | Z |
She sailed until the calm morning | A |
Carrying her full cargo of roses | A2 |
Theodore Roethke
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