Suggested By A Mountain Eagle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG AFAF HIHI IJIJ| I gazed at the azure hued mantle of heaven | A |
| The measureless depths of ethereal space | B |
| I gazed at the clouds so invisibly driven | A |
| And an eagle which wheeled with symmetrical grace | B |
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| I gazed at that eagle majestically wheeling | C |
| With dignity born of the free mountain air | D |
| I envied that bird with an envious feeling | C |
| Which springs from a heart that is shackled with care | D |
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| I envied that eagle which bowed to no master | E |
| But soared at his will through the ambient skies | F |
| Defiant of danger and scorning disaster | E |
| He screamed at the cliffs which re echoed his cries | F |
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| I envied that bird on that fair summer morning | C |
| When nature lay decked with spontaneous art | G |
| As he circled with aspect defiant and scorning | C |
| And perched on a pinnacle's loftiest part | G |
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| And scanning the scene with a stern indecision | A |
| He spread his dark wings with intuitive cries | F |
| And sped till acute and inquisitive vision | A |
| Discerned but a movable speck in the skies | F |
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| When the shades of the evening so listless and dreary | H |
| Descend on the valley his wing never flags | I |
| As through the dark shadows he soars to his eyerie | H |
| Which nestles among the impregnable crags | I |
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| Ah fain would I rise on thy feathery pinions | I |
| Above the material cares of the day | J |
| And float over earth's most enchanting dominions | I |
| As clouds by the zephyrs are wafted away | J |
Alfred Castner King
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