A Flight Of Wild Ducks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYUZA2UB2UB2C2TD2 E2QF2G2CH2B2I2J2K2UL 2M2N2| Far up the River hark 'tls the loud shock | A |
| Deadened by distance of some Fowler's gun | B |
| And as into the stillness of the scene | C |
| It wastes now with a dull vibratory boom | D |
| Look where fast widening up at either end | E |
| Out of the sinuous valley of the waters | F |
| And o'er the intervenient forest up | G |
| Against the open heaven a long dark line | H |
| Comes hitherward stretching a vast Flight of Ducks | I |
| Following the windings of the vale and still | J |
| Enlarging lengthwise and in places too | K |
| Oft breaking into solitary dots | L |
| How swiftly onwards comes it till at length | M |
| The River reaching through a group of hills | N |
| Off leads it out of sight But not for long | O |
| For wheeling ever with the water's course | P |
| Here into sudden view it comes again | Q |
| Sweeping and swarming round the nearest point | R |
| And first now a swift airy rush is heard | S |
| Approaching momently then all at once | T |
| There passes a keen cutting gusty tumult | U |
| Of strenuous pinions with a streaming mass | V |
| Of instantaneous skiey streaks each streak | W |
| Evolving with a lateral flirt and thence | X |
| Entangling as it were so rapidly | Y |
| A thousand wings outpointingly dispread | U |
| In passing tiers seem looked at from beneath | Z |
| With rushing intermixtures to involve | A2 |
| Each other as they beat Thus seen o'erhead | U |
| Even while we speak ere we have spoken lo | B2 |
| The living cloud is onward many a rood | U |
| Tracking as 'twere in the smooth stream below | B2 |
| The multifarious shadow of itself | C2 |
| Far coming present and far gone at once | T |
| The senses vainly struggle to retain | D2 |
| The impression of an Image as the same | E2 |
| So swift and manifold For now again | Q |
| A long dark line upon the utmost verge | F2 |
| Of the horizon steeping still it sinks | G2 |
| At length into the landscape where yet seen | C |
| Though dimly with a wide and scattering sweep | H2 |
| It fetches eastward and in column so | B2 |
| Dapples along the steep face of the ridge | I2 |
| There banking the turned River Now it drops | J2 |
| Below the fringing oaks but to arise | K2 |
| Once more with a quick circling gleam as touched | U |
| By the slant sunshine and then disappear | L2 |
| As instantaneously there settling down | M2 |
| Upon the reedy bosom of the water | N2 |
Charles Harpur
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