"The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
Prepared a sinister mate"
The Convergence of the Twain
I think the interesting thing about this poem is the form/pattern. Who ever heard of three line stanzas, with the first two lines short and the last one long? It's interesting, to say the least. I also noticed that (at least, most obviously, in the II, III, and IV stanzas) the first two lines tended to be positive- "jewels , ravish, joy" and the third line was negative- "lightless, bleared, black". The author most likely did this to show how the Titanic was thought to be such a grand ship, but was actually not indestructable and perfect.
The structure was also organized by rhyming, and repetition of rhyming sounds. Stanzas I and IX used words that rhymed with be, stanzas III and X used words that rhymed with -ent, and stanzas V and XI used words that rhymed with -ear. Do these corresponding stanzas relate in any other ways? Not that I am aware of. Which makes me wonder- did the author have a purpose in coordinating rhyming sounds, or was it random? This also brings me to a bigger question of poetry- is anything random in it?
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