A Bird's-eye View Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCC AADDEFGG HHBBIIII JJKLMMII NNOOBBII BBPPIIQQ RRSSBBII TTUUMMII VVWWIIGG QQXXIIBB IISSGGII

Croak croak croakA
Thus the Raven spokeA
Perched on his crooked treeB
As hoarse as hoarse could beB
Shun him and fear himC
Lest the Bridegroom hear himC
Scout him and rout himC
With his ominous eye about himC
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Yet Croak croak croakA
Still tolled from the oakA
From that fatal black birdD
Whether heard or unheardD
O ship upon the high seasE
Freighted with lives and spicesF
Sink O ship croaked the RavenG
Let the Bride mount to heavenG
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In a far foreign landH
Upon the wave edged sandH
Some friends gaze wistfullyB
Across the glittering seaB
If we could clasp our sisterI
Three say now we have missed herI
If we could kiss our daughterI
Two sigh across the waterI
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O the ship sails fastJ
With silken flags at the mastJ
And the home wind blows softK
But a Raven sits aloftL
Chuckling and chokingM
Croaking croaking croakingM
Let the beacon fire blaze higherI
Bridegroom watch the Bride draws nigherI
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On a sloped sandy beachN
Which the spring tide billows reachN
Stand a watchful throngO
Who have hoped and waited longO
Fie on this ship that tarriesB
With the priceless freight it carriesB
The time seems long and longerI
O languid wind wax strongerI
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Whilst the Raven perched at easeB
Still croaks and does not ceaseB
One monotonous noteP
Tolled from his iron throatP
No father no motherI
But I have a sable brotherI
He sees where ocean flows toQ
And he knows what he knows tooQ
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A day and a nightR
They kept watch worn and whiteR
A night and a dayS
For the swift ship on its wayS
For the Bride and her maidensB
Clear chimes the bridal cadenceB
For the tall ship that neverI
Hove in sight foreverI
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On either shore someT
Stand in grief loud or dumbT
As the dreadful dreadU
Grows certain though unsaidU
For laughter there is weepingM
And waking instead of sleepingM
And a desperate sorrowI
Morrow after morrowI
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O who knows the truthV
How she perished in her youthV
And like a queen went downW
Pale in her royal crownW
How she went up to gloryI
From the sea foam chill and hoaryI
From the sea depth black and rivenG
To the calm that is in HeavenG
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They went down all the crewQ
The silks and spices tooQ
The great ones and the smallX
One and all one and allX
Was it through stress of weatherI
Quicksands rocks or all togetherI
Only the Raven knows thisB
And he will not disclose thisB
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After a day and a yearI
The bridal bells chime clearI
After a year and a dayS
The Bridegroom is brave and gayS
Love is sound faith is rottenG
The old Bride is forgottenG
Two ominous Ravens onlyI
Remember black and lonelyI

Christina Rossetti



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