The Doctor Of Geneva Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHE IJK LEM| The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand | A |
| That lay impounding the Pacific swell | B |
| Patted his stove pipe hat and tugged his shawl | C |
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| Lacustrine man had never been assailed | D |
| By such long rolling opulent cataracts | E |
| Unless Racine or Bossuet held the like | F |
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| He did not quail A man who used to plumb | G |
| The multifarious heavens felt no awe | H |
| Before these visible voluble delugings | E |
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| Which yet found means to set his simmering mind | I |
| Spinning and hissing with oracular | J |
| Notations of the wild the ruinous waste | K |
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| Until the steeples of his city clanked and sprang | L |
| In an unburgherly apocalypse | E |
| The doctor used his handkerchief and sighed | M |
Wallace Stevens
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