Free Fall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHD IJ CKC ECL MNO POQ RST UDF FDB VWV| A long while a long long while it seems | A |
| The bat winged figure shaking his robe | B |
| The cameras purring | C |
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| It is Daedalus the tailor up on the Eiffel Tower | D |
| Ready to fly The year is | E |
| We watch it now | F |
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| Shakes at his bat robe first to the right | G |
| Then left then right again a twitch | H |
| A doubtful gesture | D |
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| 'Cast thyself from the pinnacle angels will bear thee up ' | - |
| So great a height the wings will surely beat | I |
| And bear me up | J |
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| Shaking his robe A mile of film we are wasting | C |
| Why doesn't he jump In these long seconds | K |
| What is he thinking | C |
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| That the plan was crazy and the careful stitches | E |
| Shaped him a shroud Perhaps he is wondering | C |
| How to withdraw | L |
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| To pretend a flaw in the work a change in the wind | M |
| And imagines how it would be to face | N |
| The jeering crowd | O |
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| Slink back to his trade and live with nothing to live for | P |
| So still he hesitates and shakes his shroud | O |
| Then suddenly jumps | Q |
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| Not even a flap from the wings The lens below | R |
| Can barely follow the plummeting shape | S |
| So quick his fall | T |
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| Hollowing out his own grave | U |
| We are caught between dismay and laughter | D |
| Watching it now | F |
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| Not in a myth not a century back but now | F |
| Ridiculous death Yet as he stood on the tower | D |
| Shaking shaking his robe | B |
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| He mimed what each man must in private try | V |
| Poised on the parapet of darkness | W |
| Each in that crowd and you reader and I | V |
Anne Barbara Ridler
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