Big Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEBFGHIJKLMNOPQ RLSTUVBWXYZAA2| Where 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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