To A Canadian Aviator Who Died For His Country In France Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEBFGHI JCCJKHCLCLMN OLOCPQQRSSQDT| Tossed like a falcon from the hunter's wrist | A |
| A sweeping plunge a sudden shattering noise | B |
| And thou hast dared with a long spiral twist | A |
| The elastic stairway to the rising sun | C |
| Peril below thee and above peril | D |
| Within thy car but peril cannot daunt | E |
| Thy peerless heart gathering wing and poise | B |
| Thy plane transfigured and thy motor chant | F |
| Subdu d to a whisper then a silence | G |
| And thou art but a disembodied venture | H |
| In the void | I |
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| But Death who has learned to fly | J |
| Still matchless when his work is to be done | C |
| Met thee between the armies and the sun | C |
| Thy speck of shadow faltered in the sky | J |
| Then thy dead engine and thy broken wings | K |
| Drooped through the arc and passed in fire | H |
| A wreath of smoke a breathless exhalation | C |
| But ere that came a vision sealed thine eyes | L |
| Lulling thy senses with oblivion | C |
| And from its sliding station in the skies | L |
| Thy dauntless soul upward in circles soared | M |
| To the sublime and purest radiance whence it sprang | N |
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| In all their eyries eagles shall mourn thy fate | O |
| And leaving on the lonely crags and scaurs | L |
| Their unprotected young shall congregate | O |
| High in the tenuous heaven and anger the sun | C |
| With screams and with a wild audacity | P |
| Dare all the battle danger of thy flight | Q |
| Till weary with combat one shall desert the light | Q |
| Fall like a bolt of thunder and check his fall | R |
| On the high ledge smoky with mist and cloud | S |
| Where his neglected eaglets shriek aloud | S |
| And drawing the film across his sovereign sight | Q |
| Shall dream of thy swift soul immortal | D |
| Mounting in circles faithful beyond death | T |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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