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