A Bird's-eye View Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDDD BEEFGH IICC J KKLMNNJJ OOPPCCJ CCQQJJR SSTTCCJJ UUVVNNJJ WWXXJJHH RRYYJJCC JJTTHHJJ| 'Croak croak croak ' | A |
| Thus the Raven spoke | B |
| Perched on his crooked tree | C |
| As hoarse as hoarse could be | C |
| Shun him and fear him | D |
| Lest the Bridegroom hear him | D |
| Scout him and rout him | D |
| With his ominous eye about him | D |
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| Yet 'Croak croak croak ' | - |
| Still tolled from the oak | B |
| From that fatal black bird | E |
| Whether heard or unheard | E |
| 'O ship upon the high seas | F |
| Freighted with lives and spices | G |
| Sink O ship ' croaked the Raven | H |
| 'Let the Bride mount to heaven ' | - |
| - | |
| In a far foreign land | I |
| Upon the wave edged sand | I |
| Some friends gaze wistfully | C |
| Across the glittering sea | C |
| 'If we could clasp our sister ' | - |
| Three say 'now we have missed her ' | - |
| 'If we could kiss our daughter ' | - |
| Two sigh across the water | J |
| - | |
| Oh the ship sails fast | K |
| With silken flags at the mast | K |
| And the home wind blows soft | L |
| But a Raven sits aloft | M |
| Chuckling and choking | N |
| Croaking croaking croaking | N |
| Let the beacon fire blaze higher | J |
| Bridegroom watch the Bride draws nigher | J |
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| On a sloped sandy beach | O |
| Which the spring tide billows reach | O |
| Stand a watchful throng | P |
| Who have hoped and waited long | P |
| 'Fie on this ship that tarries | C |
| With the priceless freight it carries | C |
| The time seems long and longer | J |
| O languid wind wax stronger ' | - |
| - | |
| Whilst the Raven perched at ease | C |
| Still croaks and does not cease | C |
| One monotonous note | Q |
| Tolled from his iron throat | Q |
| 'No father no mother | J |
| But I have a sable brother | J |
| He sees where ocean flows to | R |
| And he knows what he knows too ' | - |
| - | |
| A day and a night | S |
| They kept watch worn and white | S |
| A night and a day | T |
| For the swift ship on its way | T |
| For the Bride and her maidens | C |
| Clear chimes the bridal cadence | C |
| For the tall ship that never | J |
| Hove in sight for ever | J |
| - | |
| On either shore some | U |
| Stand in grief loud or dumb | U |
| As the dreadful dread | V |
| Grows certain though unsaid | V |
| For laughter there is weeping | N |
| And waking instead of sleeping | N |
| And a desperate sorrow | J |
| Morrow after morrow | J |
| - | |
| Oh who knows the truth | W |
| How she perished in her youth | W |
| And like a queen went down | X |
| Pale in her royal crown | X |
| How she went up to glory | J |
| From the sea foam chill and hoary | J |
| From the sea depth black and riven | H |
| To the calm that is in Heaven | H |
| - | |
| They went down all the crew | R |
| The silks and spices too | R |
| The great ones and the small | Y |
| One and all one and all | Y |
| Was it through stress of weather | J |
| Quicksands rocks or all together | J |
| Only the Raven knows this | C |
| And he will not disclose this | C |
| - | |
| After a day and year | J |
| The bridal bells chime clear | J |
| After a year and a day | T |
| The Bridegroom is brave and gay | T |
| Love is sound faith is rotten | H |
| The old Bride is forgotten | H |
| Two ominous Ravens only | J |
| Remember black and lonely | J |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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