The Island Hawk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGHG IJIJKLKLFIHI MIMIIIIIFIHI ININHOHOFIHI PPIPIIIIFIHI PPIPQPQPFIHI IRPRSITIFIHI

Hushed are the whimpering winds on the hillA
Dumb is the shrinking plainB
And the songs that enchanted the woods are stillA
As I shoot to the skies againC
Does the blood grow black on my fierce bent beakD
Does the down still cling to my clawE
Who brightened these eyes for the prey they seekD
Life I follow thy lawE
For I am the hawk the hawk the hawkF
Who knoweth my pitiless breastG
Who watcheth me sway in the wild wind's wayH
Flee flee for I quest I questG
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As I glide and glide with my peering headI
Or swerve at a puff of smokeJ
Who watcheth my wings on the wind outspreadI
Here gone with an instant strokeJ
Who toucheth the glory of life I feelK
As I buffet this great glad galeL
Spire and spire to the cloud world wheelK
Loosen my wings and sailL
For I am the hawk the island hawkF
Who knoweth my pitiless breastI
Who watcheth me sway in the sun's bright wayH
Flee flee for I quest I questI
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My mate in the nest on the high bright treeM
Blazing with dawn and dewI
She knoweth the gleam of the world and the gleeM
As I drop like a bolt from the blueI
She knoweth the fire of the level flightI
As I skim close close to the groundI
With the long grass lashing my breast and the brightI
Dew drops flashing aroundI
She watcheth the hawk the hawk the hawkF
Oh the red blotched eggs in the nestI
Watcheth him sway in the sun's bright wayH
Flee flee for I quest I questI
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She builded her nest on the high bright woldI
She was taught in a world afarN
The lore that is only an April oldI
Yet old as the evening starN
Life of a far off ancient dayH
In an hour unhooded her eyesO
In the time of the budding of one green sprayH
She was wise as the stars are wiseO
An eyas in eyry a yellow eyed hawkF
On the old elm's burgeoning breastI
She watcheth me sway in the wild wind's wayH
Flee flee for I quest I questI
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She hath ridden on white Arabian steedsP
Thro' the ringing English dellsP
For the joy of a great queen hunting in stateI
To the music of golden bellsP
A queen's fair fingers have drawn the hoodI
And tossed her aloft in the blueI
A white hand eager for needless bloodI
I hunt for the needs of twoI
A haggard in yarak a hawk a hawkF
Who knoweth my pitiless breastI
Who watcheth me sway in the sun's bright wayH
Flee flee for I quest I questI
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Who fashioned her wide and splendid eyesP
That have stared in the eyes of kingsP
With a silken twist she was looped to their wristI
She has clawed at their jewelled ringsP
Who flung her first thro' the crimson dawnQ
To pluck him a prey from the skiesP
When the love light shone upon lake and lawnQ
In the valleys of ParadiseP
Who fashioned the hawk the hawk the hawkF
Bent beak and pitiless breastI
Who watcheth him sway in the wild wind's wayH
Flee flee for I quest I questI
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Is there ever a song in all the worldI
Shall say how the quest beganR
With the beak and the wings that have made us kingsP
And cruel almost as manR
The wild wind whimpers across the heathS
Where the sad little tufts of blueI
And the red stained grey little feathers of deathT
Flutter Who fashioned us WhoI
Who fashioned the scimitar wings of the hawkF
Bent beak and arrowy breastI
Who watcheth him sway in the sun's bright wayH
Flee flee for I quest I questI

Alfred Noyes



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