The Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHI JE KLBMNCO PMQROOBCCBS OEOTUO VUW XCBKOO

A
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Against the stone breakwaterB
Only an ominous lappingC
While the wind whines overheadD
Coming down from the mountainE
Whistling between the arbors the winding terracesF
A thin whine of wires a rattling and flapping of leavesG
And the small street lamp swinging and slamming againstH
the lamp poleI
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Where have the people goneJ
There is one light on the mountainE
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-
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Along the sea wall a steady sloshing of the swellK
The waves not yet high but evenL
Coming closer and closer upon each otherB
A fine fume of rain driving in from the seaM
Riddling the sand like a wide spray of buckshotN
The wind from the sea and the wind from the mountain contendingC
Flicking the foam from the whitecaps straight upward into the darknessO
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A time to go homeP
And a child's dirty shift billows upward out of an alleyM
A cat runs from the wind as we doQ
Between the whitening trees up Santa LuciaR
Where the heavy door unlocksO
And our breath comes more easyO
Then a crack of thunder and the black rain runs over us overB
The flat roofed houses coming down in gusts beatingC
The walls the slatted windows drivingC
The last watcher indoors moving the cardplayers closerB
To their cards their anisetteS
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We creep to our bed and its straw mattressO
We wait we listenE
The storm lulls off then redoublesO
Bending the trees half way down to the groundT
Shaking loose the last wizened oranges in the orchardU
Flattening the limber carnationsO
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A spider eases himself down from a swaying light bulbV
Running over the coverlet down under the iron bedsteadU
Water roars into the cisternW
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We lie closer on the gritty pillowX
Breathing heavily hopingC
For the great last leap of the wave over the breakwaterB
The flat boom on the beach of the towering sea swellK
The sudden shudder as the jutting sea cliff collapsesO
And the hurricane drives the dead straw into the living pine treeO

Theodore Roethke



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