Fluttered Wings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GHGHG| The splendor of the kindling day | A |
| The splendor of the setting sun | B |
| These move my soul to wend its way | A |
| And have done | B |
| With all we grasp and toil amongst and say | A |
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| The paling roses of a cloud | C |
| The fading bow that arches space | D |
| These woo my fancy toward my shroud | C |
| Toward the place | D |
| Of faces veiled and heads discrowned and bowed | C |
| - | |
| The nation of the awful stars | E |
| The wandering star whose blaze is brief | F |
| These make me beat against the bars | E |
| Of my grief | F |
| My tedious grief twin to the life it mars | E |
| - | |
| O fretted heart tossed to and fro | G |
| So fain to flee so fain to rest | H |
| All glories that are high or low | G |
| East or west | H |
| Grow dim to thee who art so fain to go | G |
Christina Rossetti
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