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