The Swallows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDACE FGFGHHFHF IJIJKKIKI LMLMNNONO| AH swallows is it so | A |
| Did loving lingering summer whose slow pace | B |
| Tarried among late blossoms loth to go | A |
| Gather the darkening cloud wraps round her face | B |
| And weep herself away in last week's rain | C |
| Can no new sunlight waken her again | D |
| 'Yes ' one pale rose a blow | A |
| Has answered from the trellised lane | C |
| The flickering swallows answer 'No ' | E |
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| From out the dim grey sky | F |
| The arrowy swarm breaks forth and specks the air | G |
| While one by one birds wheel and float and fly | F |
| And now are gone then suddenly are there | G |
| Till lo the heavens are empty of them all | H |
| Oh fly fly south from leaves that fade and fall | H |
| From shivering flowers that die | F |
| Free swallows fly from winter's thrall | H |
| Ye who can give the gloom good bye | F |
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| But what for us who stay | I |
| To hear the winds and watch the boughs grow black | J |
| And in the soddened mornings day by day | I |
| Count what lost sweets bestrew the nightly track | J |
| Of frost foot winter trampling towards his throne | K |
| Swallows who have the sunlight for your own | K |
| Fly on your sunward way | I |
| For you has January buds new blown | K |
| For us the snows and gloom and grey | I |
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| On on beyond our reach | L |
| Swallows with but your longing for a guide | M |
| Let the hills rise let the waves tear the beach | L |
| Ye will not balk your course nor turn aside | M |
| But find the palms and twitter in the sun | N |
| And well for them whose eager wings have won | N |
| The longed for goal of flight | O |
| But what of them in twilights dun | N |
| Who long but have no wings for flight | O |
Augusta Davies Webster
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