The Convergence Of The Twain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CCC DEE FFF GGH III JJJ KKK C C DED CCC| Lines on the loss of the Titanic | A |
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| I | - |
| In a solitude of the sea | B |
| Deep from human vanity | B |
| And the Pride of Life that planned her stilly couches she | B |
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| II | - |
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| Steel chambers late the pyres | C |
| Of her salamandrine fires | C |
| Cold currents thrid and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres | C |
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| III | - |
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| Over the mirrors meant | D |
| To glass the opulent | E |
| The sea worm crawls grotesque slimed dumb indifferent | E |
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| IV | - |
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| Jewels in joy designed | F |
| To ravish the sensuous mind | F |
| Lie lightless all their sparkles bleared and black and blind | F |
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| V | - |
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| Dim moon eyed fishes near | G |
| Gaze at the gilded gear | G |
| And query What does this vaingloriousness down here | H |
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| VI | - |
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| Well while was fashioning | I |
| This creature of cleaving wing | I |
| The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything | I |
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| VII | - |
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| Prepared a sinister mate | J |
| For her so gaily great | J |
| A Shape of Ice for the time fat and dissociate | J |
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| VIII | - |
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| And as the smart ship grew | K |
| In stature grace and hue | K |
| In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too | K |
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| IX | C |
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| Alien they seemed to be | - |
| No mortal eye could see | - |
| The intimate welding of their later history | - |
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| X | C |
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| Or sign that they were bent | D |
| By paths coincident | E |
| On being anon twin halves of one august event | D |
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| XI | - |
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| Till the Spinner of the Years | C |
| Said Now And each one hears | C |
| And consummation comes and jars two hemispheres | C |
Thomas Hardy
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