The Island Hawk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGHG IJIJKLKLFIHI MIMIIIIIFIHI ININHOHOFIHI PPIPIIIIFIHI PPIPQPQPFIHI IRPRSITIFIHIHushed are the whimpering winds on the hill | A |
Dumb is the shrinking plain | B |
And the songs that enchanted the woods are still | A |
As I shoot to the skies again | C |
Does the blood grow black on my fierce bent beak | D |
Does the down still cling to my claw | E |
Who brightened these eyes for the prey they seek | D |
Life I follow thy law | E |
For I am the hawk the hawk the hawk | F |
Who knoweth my pitiless breast | G |
Who watcheth me sway in the wild wind's way | H |
Flee flee for I quest I quest | G |
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As I glide and glide with my peering head | I |
Or swerve at a puff of smoke | J |
Who watcheth my wings on the wind outspread | I |
Here gone with an instant stroke | J |
Who toucheth the glory of life I feel | K |
As I buffet this great glad gale | L |
Spire and spire to the cloud world wheel | K |
Loosen my wings and sail | L |
For I am the hawk the island hawk | F |
Who knoweth my pitiless breast | I |
Who watcheth me sway in the sun's bright way | H |
Flee flee for I quest I quest | I |
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My mate in the nest on the high bright tree | M |
Blazing with dawn and dew | I |
She knoweth the gleam of the world and the glee | M |
As I drop like a bolt from the blue | I |
She knoweth the fire of the level flight | I |
As I skim close close to the ground | I |
With the long grass lashing my breast and the bright | I |
Dew drops flashing around | I |
She watcheth the hawk the hawk the hawk | F |
Oh the red blotched eggs in the nest | I |
Watcheth him sway in the sun's bright way | H |
Flee flee for I quest I quest | I |
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She builded her nest on the high bright wold | I |
She was taught in a world afar | N |
The lore that is only an April old | I |
Yet old as the evening star | N |
Life of a far off ancient day | H |
In an hour unhooded her eyes | O |
In the time of the budding of one green spray | H |
She was wise as the stars are wise | O |
An eyas in eyry a yellow eyed hawk | F |
On the old elm's burgeoning breast | I |
She watcheth me sway in the wild wind's way | H |
Flee flee for I quest I quest | I |
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She hath ridden on white Arabian steeds | P |
Thro' the ringing English dells | P |
For the joy of a great queen hunting in state | I |
To the music of golden bells | P |
A queen's fair fingers have drawn the hood | I |
And tossed her aloft in the blue | I |
A white hand eager for needless blood | I |
I hunt for the needs of two | I |
A haggard in yarak a hawk a hawk | F |
Who knoweth my pitiless breast | I |
Who watcheth me sway in the sun's bright way | H |
Flee flee for I quest I quest | I |
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Who fashioned her wide and splendid eyes | P |
That have stared in the eyes of kings | P |
With a silken twist she was looped to their wrist | I |
She has clawed at their jewelled rings | P |
Who flung her first thro' the crimson dawn | Q |
To pluck him a prey from the skies | P |
When the love light shone upon lake and lawn | Q |
In the valleys of Paradise | P |
Who fashioned the hawk the hawk the hawk | F |
Bent beak and pitiless breast | I |
Who watcheth him sway in the wild wind's way | H |
Flee flee for I quest I quest | I |
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Is there ever a song in all the world | I |
Shall say how the quest began | R |
With the beak and the wings that have made us kings | P |
And cruel almost as man | R |
The wild wind whimpers across the heath | S |
Where the sad little tufts of blue | I |
And the red stained grey little feathers of death | T |
Flutter Who fashioned us Who | I |
Who fashioned the scimitar wings of the hawk | F |
Bent beak and arrowy breast | I |
Who watcheth him sway in the sun's bright way | H |
Flee flee for I quest I quest | I |
Alfred Noyes
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