The First Swallow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EBEEB| The gorse is yellow on the heath | A |
| The banks with speedwell flowers are gay | B |
| The oaks are budding and beneath | A |
| The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath | A |
| The silver wreath of May | B |
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| The welcome guest of settled Spring | C |
| The swallow too has come at last | D |
| Just at sunset when thrushes sing | C |
| I saw her dash with rapid wing | C |
| And hailed her as she passed | D |
| - | |
| Come summer visitant attach | E |
| To my reed roof your nest of clay | B |
| And let my ear your music catch | E |
| Low twittering underneath the thatch | E |
| At the gray dawn of day | B |
Charlotte Smith
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