Bat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DD EFE DGH IJKH L M DNGOGP MQR QES TUV VWX V Q YZ A2YQ V| At evening sitting on this terrace | A |
| When the sun from the west beyond Pisa beyond the mountains of Carrara | B |
| Departs and the world is taken by surprise | C |
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| When the tired flower of Florence is in gloom beneath the glowing | D |
| Brown hills surrounding | D |
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| When under the arches of the Ponte Vecchio | E |
| A green light enters against stream flush from the west | F |
| Against the current of obscure Arno | E |
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| Look up and you see things flying | D |
| Between the day and the night | G |
| Swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together | H |
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| A circle swoop and a quick parabola under the bridge arches | I |
| Where light pushes through | J |
| A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air | K |
| A dip to the water | H |
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| And you think | L |
| 'The swallows are flying so late ' | - |
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| Swallows | M |
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| Dark air life looping | D |
| Yet missing the pure loop | N |
| A twitch a twitter an elastic shudder in flight | G |
| And serrated wings against the sky | O |
| Like a glove a black glove thrown up at the light | G |
| And falling back | P |
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| Never swallows | M |
| Bats | Q |
| The swallows are gone | R |
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| At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats | Q |
| By the Ponte Vecchio | E |
| Changing guard | S |
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| Bats and an uneasy creeping in one's scalp | T |
| As the bats swoop overhead | U |
| Flying madly | V |
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| Pipistrello | V |
| Black piper on an infinitesimal pipe | W |
| Little lumps that fly in air and have voices indefinite wildly vindictive | X |
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| Wings like bits of umbrella | V |
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| Bats | Q |
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| Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag to sleep | Y |
| And disgustingly upside down | Z |
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| Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags | A2 |
| And grinning in their sleep | Y |
| Bats | Q |
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| Not for me | V |
David Herbert Lawrence
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