Avitor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DEDB FGGB HHHB IIIB JJJB IIIB KKKB LLLB| What was it filled my youthful dreams | A |
| In place of Greek or Latin themes | A |
| Or beauty's wild bewildering beams | A |
| Avitor | B |
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| What visions and celestial scenes | C |
| I filled with aerial machines | C |
| Montgolfier's and Mr Green's | C |
| Avitor | B |
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| What fairy tales seemed things of course | D |
| The roc that brought Sindbad across | E |
| The Calendar's own winged horse | D |
| Avitor | B |
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| How many things I took for facts | F |
| Icarus and his conduct lax | G |
| And how he sealed his fate with wax | G |
| Avitor | B |
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| The first balloons I sought to sail | H |
| Soap bubbles fair but all too frail | H |
| Or kites but thereby hangs a tail | H |
| Avitor | B |
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| What made me launch from attic tall | I |
| A kitten and a parasol | I |
| And watch their bitter frightful fall | I |
| Avitor | B |
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| What youthful dreams of high renown | J |
| Bade me inflate the parson's gown | J |
| That went not up nor yet came down | J |
| Avitor | B |
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| My first ascent I may not tell | I |
| Enough to know that in that well | I |
| My first high aspirations fell | I |
| Avitor | B |
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| My other failures let me pass | K |
| The dire explosions and alas | K |
| The friends I choked with noxious gas | K |
| Avitor | B |
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| For lo I see perfected rise | L |
| The vision of my boyish eyes | L |
| The messenger of upper skies | L |
| Avitor | B |
Bret Harte (francis)
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