Over Sir John's Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEFAFGH IIJKLJMNF OP QQRSTRU VWXY ZZA2A2A2A2MB2ZC2D2P E2E2F2G2H2A2F2I2F2J2 GP

Over Sir John's hillA
The hawk on fire hangs stillA
In a hoisted cloud at drop of dusk he pulls to his clawsB
And gallows up the rays of his eyes the small birds of the bayC
And the shrill child's playC
WarsD
Of the sparrows and such who swansing dusk in wrangling hedgesE
And blithely they squawkF
To fiery tyburn over the wrestle of elms untilA
The flash the noosed hawkF
Crashes and slowly the fishing holy stalking heronG
In the river Towy below bows his tilted headstoneH
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Flash and the plumes crackI
And a black cap of jackI
Daws Sir John's just hill dons and again the gulled birds hareJ
To the hawk on fire the halter height over Towy's finsK
In a whack of windL
ThereJ
Where the elegiac fisherbird stabs and paddlesM
In the pebbly dab filledN
Shallow and sedge and 'dilly dilly ' calls the loft hawkF
'Come and be killed '-
I open the leaves of the water at a passageO
Of psalms and shadows among the pincered sandcrabs prancingP
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And read in a shellQ
Death clear as a bouy's bellQ
All praise of the hawk on fire in hawk eyed dusk be sungR
When his viperish fuse hangs looped with flames under the brandS
Wing and blest shallT
YoungR
Green chickens of the bay and bushes cluck 'dilly dillyU
Come let us die '-
We grieve as the blithe birds never again leave shingle and elmV
The heron and IW
I young Aesop fabling to the near night by the dingleX
Of eels saint heron hymning in the shell hung distantY
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Crystal harbour valeZ
Where the sea cobbles sailZ
And wharves of water where the walls dance and the white cranes stiltA2
It is the heron and I under judging Sir John's elmedA2
Hill tell tale the knelledA2
GuiltA2
Of the led astray birds whom God for their breast of whistlesM
Have Mercy onB2
God in his whirlwind silence save who marks the sparrows hailZ
For their souls' songC2
Now the heron grieves in the weeded verge Through windowsD2
Of dusk and water I see the tilting whisperingP
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Heron mirrored goE2
As the snapt feathers snowE2
Fishing in the tear of the Towy Only a hoot owlF2
Hollows a grassblade blown in cupped hands in the looted elmsG2
And no green cocks or hensH2
ShoutA2
Now on Sir John's hill The heron ankling the scalyF2
Lowlands of the wavesI2
Makes all the music and I who hear the tune of the slowF2
Wear willow river graveJ2
Before the lunge of the night the notes on this time shakenG
Stone for the sake of the souls of the slain birds sailingP

Dylan Thomas



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