The Dying Swan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDEFCEF A GAGHAIJJHI A KLMNAKNOPPOPPNNQRQRS TS

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The plain was grassy wild and bareB
Wide wild and open to the airB
Which had built up everywhereB
An under roof of doleful grayC
With an inner voice the river ranD
Adown it floated a dying swanE
And loudly did lamentF
It was the middle of the dayC
Ever the weary wind went onE
And took the reed tops as it wentF
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IIA
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Some blue peaks in the distance roseG
And white against the cold white skyA
Shone out their crowning snowsG
One willow over the river weptH
And shook the wave as the wind did sighA
Above in the wind was the swallowI
Chasing itself at its own wild willJ
And far thro' the marish green and stillJ
The tangled water courses sleptH
Shot over with purple and green and yellowI
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The wild swan's death hymn took the soulK
Of that waste place with joyL
Hidden in sorrow at first to the earM
The warble was low and full and clearN
And floating about the under skyA
Prevailing in weakness the coronach stoleK
Sometimes afar and sometimes anearN
But anon her awful jubilant voiceO
With a music strange and manifoldP
Flow'd forth on a carol free and boldP
As when a mighty people rejoiceO
With shawms and with cymbals and harps of goldP
And the tumult of their acclaim is roll'dP
Thro' the open gates of the city afarN
To the shepherd who watcheth the evening starN
And the creeping mosses and clambering weedsQ
And the willow branches hoar and dankR
And the wavy swell of the soughing reedsQ
And the wave worn horns of the echoing bankR
And the silvery marish flowers that throngS
The desolate creeks and pools amongT
Were flooded over with eddying songS

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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