Timber Wings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C A D A E FGGA| THERE was a wild pigeon came often to Hinkley's timber | A |
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| Gray wings that wrote their loops and triangles on the walnuts and the hazel | B |
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| There was a wild pigeon | C |
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| There was a summer came year by year to Hinkley's timber | A |
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| Rainy months and sunny and pigeons calling and one pigeon best of all who came | D |
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| There was a summer | A |
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| It is so long ago I saw this wild pigeon and listened | E |
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| It is so long ago I heard the summer song of the pigeon who told me why night comes why death and stars come why the whippoorwill remembers three notes only and always | F |
| It is so long ago it is like now and today the gray wing pigeon's way of telling it all telling it to the walnuts and hazel telling it to me | G |
| So there is memory | G |
| So there is a pigeon a summer a gray wing beating my shoulder | A |
Carl Sandburg
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