On The Wing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEDCE| Once in a dream for once I dreamed of you | A |
| We stood together in an open field | B |
| Above our heads two swift winged pigeons wheeled | B |
| Sporting at ease and courting full in view | A |
| When loftier still a broadening darkness flew | A |
| Down swooping and a ravenous hawk revealed | B |
| Too weak to fight too fond to fly they yield | B |
| So farewell life and love and pleasures new | A |
| Then as their plumes fell fluttering to the ground | C |
| Their snow white plumage flecked with crimson drops | D |
| I wept and thought I turned towards you to weep | E |
| But you were gone while rustling hedgerow tops | D |
| Bent in a wind which bore to me a sound | C |
| Of far off piteous bleat of lambs and sheep | E |
Christina Rossetti
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