Over Sir John's Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEFAFGH IIJKLJMNF OP QQRSTRU VWXY ZZA2A2A2A2MB2ZC2D2P E2E2F2G2H2A2F2I2F2J2 GPOver Sir John's hill | A |
The hawk on fire hangs still | A |
In a hoisted cloud at drop of dusk he pulls to his claws | B |
And gallows up the rays of his eyes the small birds of the bay | C |
And the shrill child's play | C |
Wars | D |
Of the sparrows and such who swansing dusk in wrangling hedges | E |
And blithely they squawk | F |
To fiery tyburn over the wrestle of elms until | A |
The flash the noosed hawk | F |
Crashes and slowly the fishing holy stalking heron | G |
In the river Towy below bows his tilted headstone | H |
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Flash and the plumes crack | I |
And a black cap of jack | I |
Daws Sir John's just hill dons and again the gulled birds hare | J |
To the hawk on fire the halter height over Towy's fins | K |
In a whack of wind | L |
There | J |
Where the elegiac fisherbird stabs and paddles | M |
In the pebbly dab filled | N |
Shallow and sedge and 'dilly dilly ' calls the loft hawk | F |
'Come and be killed ' | - |
I open the leaves of the water at a passage | O |
Of psalms and shadows among the pincered sandcrabs prancing | P |
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And read in a shell | Q |
Death clear as a bouy's bell | Q |
All praise of the hawk on fire in hawk eyed dusk be sung | R |
When his viperish fuse hangs looped with flames under the brand | S |
Wing and blest shall | T |
Young | R |
Green chickens of the bay and bushes cluck 'dilly dilly | U |
Come let us die ' | - |
We grieve as the blithe birds never again leave shingle and elm | V |
The heron and I | W |
I young Aesop fabling to the near night by the dingle | X |
Of eels saint heron hymning in the shell hung distant | Y |
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Crystal harbour vale | Z |
Where the sea cobbles sail | Z |
And wharves of water where the walls dance and the white cranes stilt | A2 |
It is the heron and I under judging Sir John's elmed | A2 |
Hill tell tale the knelled | A2 |
Guilt | A2 |
Of the led astray birds whom God for their breast of whistles | M |
Have Mercy on | B2 |
God in his whirlwind silence save who marks the sparrows hail | Z |
For their souls' song | C2 |
Now the heron grieves in the weeded verge Through windows | D2 |
Of dusk and water I see the tilting whispering | P |
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Heron mirrored go | E2 |
As the snapt feathers snow | E2 |
Fishing in the tear of the Towy Only a hoot owl | F2 |
Hollows a grassblade blown in cupped hands in the looted elms | G2 |
And no green cocks or hens | H2 |
Shout | A2 |
Now on Sir John's hill The heron ankling the scaly | F2 |
Lowlands of the waves | I2 |
Makes all the music and I who hear the tune of the slow | F2 |
Wear willow river grave | J2 |
Before the lunge of the night the notes on this time shaken | G |
Stone for the sake of the souls of the slain birds sailing | P |
Dylan Thomas
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