Sunset Wings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCACCAADAADEFEEF GHIIHJCJJC| TO NIGHT this sunset spreads two golden wings | A |
| Cleaving the western sky | B |
| Winged too with wind it is and winnowings | A |
| Of birds as if the day's last hour in rings | A |
| Of strenuous flight must die | B |
| Sun steeped in fire the homeward pinions sway | C |
| Above the dovecote tops | A |
| And clouds of starlings ere they rest with day | C |
| Sink clamorous like mill waters at wild play | C |
| By turns in every copse | A |
| Each tree heart deep the wrangling rout receives | A |
| Save for the whirr within | D |
| You could not tell the starlings from the leaves | A |
| Then one great puff of wings and the swarm heaves | A |
| Away with all its din | D |
| Even thus Hope's hours in ever eddying flight | E |
| To many a refuge tend | F |
| With the first light she laughed and the last light | E |
| Glows round her still who natheless in the night | E |
| At length must make an end | F |
| And now the mustering rooks innumerable | G |
| Together sail and soar | H |
| While for the day's death like a tolling knell | I |
| Unto the heart they seem to cry Farewell | I |
| No more farewell no more | H |
| Is Hope not plumed as 'twere a fiery dart | J |
| And oh thou dying day | C |
| Even as thou goest must she too depart | J |
| And Sorrow fold such pinions on the heart | J |
| As will not fly away | C |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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