The Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHI JE KLBMNCO PMQROOBCCBS OEOTUO VUW XCBKOOA | |
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Against the stone breakwater | B |
Only an ominous lapping | C |
While the wind whines overhead | D |
Coming down from the mountain | E |
Whistling between the arbors the winding terraces | F |
A thin whine of wires a rattling and flapping of leaves | G |
And the small street lamp swinging and slamming against | H |
the lamp pole | I |
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Where have the people gone | J |
There is one light on the mountain | E |
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Along the sea wall a steady sloshing of the swell | K |
The waves not yet high but even | L |
Coming closer and closer upon each other | B |
A fine fume of rain driving in from the sea | M |
Riddling the sand like a wide spray of buckshot | N |
The wind from the sea and the wind from the mountain contending | C |
Flicking the foam from the whitecaps straight upward into the darkness | O |
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A time to go home | P |
And a child's dirty shift billows upward out of an alley | M |
A cat runs from the wind as we do | Q |
Between the whitening trees up Santa Lucia | R |
Where the heavy door unlocks | O |
And our breath comes more easy | O |
Then a crack of thunder and the black rain runs over us over | B |
The flat roofed houses coming down in gusts beating | C |
The walls the slatted windows driving | C |
The last watcher indoors moving the cardplayers closer | B |
To their cards their anisette | S |
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We creep to our bed and its straw mattress | O |
We wait we listen | E |
The storm lulls off then redoubles | O |
Bending the trees half way down to the ground | T |
Shaking loose the last wizened oranges in the orchard | U |
Flattening the limber carnations | O |
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A spider eases himself down from a swaying light bulb | V |
Running over the coverlet down under the iron bedstead | U |
Water roars into the cistern | W |
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We lie closer on the gritty pillow | X |
Breathing heavily hoping | C |
For the great last leap of the wave over the breakwater | B |
The flat boom on the beach of the towering sea swell | K |
The sudden shudder as the jutting sea cliff collapses | O |
And the hurricane drives the dead straw into the living pine tree | O |
Theodore Roethke
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