The Dying Swan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDEFCEF A GAGHAIJJHI A KLMNAKNOPPOPPNNQRQRS TSI | A |
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The plain was grassy wild and bare | B |
Wide wild and open to the air | B |
Which had built up everywhere | B |
An under roof of doleful gray | C |
With an inner voice the river ran | D |
Adown it floated a dying swan | E |
And loudly did lament | F |
It was the middle of the day | C |
Ever the weary wind went on | E |
And took the reed tops as it went | F |
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II | A |
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Some blue peaks in the distance rose | G |
And white against the cold white sky | A |
Shone out their crowning snows | G |
One willow over the river wept | H |
And shook the wave as the wind did sigh | A |
Above in the wind was the swallow | I |
Chasing itself at its own wild will | J |
And far thro' the marish green and still | J |
The tangled water courses slept | H |
Shot over with purple and green and yellow | I |
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III | A |
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The wild swan's death hymn took the soul | K |
Of that waste place with joy | L |
Hidden in sorrow at first to the ear | M |
The warble was low and full and clear | N |
And floating about the under sky | A |
Prevailing in weakness the coronach stole | K |
Sometimes afar and sometimes anear | N |
But anon her awful jubilant voice | O |
With a music strange and manifold | P |
Flow'd forth on a carol free and bold | P |
As when a mighty people rejoice | O |
With shawms and with cymbals and harps of gold | P |
And the tumult of their acclaim is roll'd | P |
Thro' the open gates of the city afar | N |
To the shepherd who watcheth the evening star | N |
And the creeping mosses and clambering weeds | Q |
And the willow branches hoar and dank | R |
And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds | Q |
And the wave worn horns of the echoing bank | R |
And the silvery marish flowers that throng | S |
The desolate creeks and pools among | T |
Were flooded over with eddying song | S |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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