The Eagle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEEDC BBE FGHIIHG FFI JIKLLKIJJL MIGNGIMMN IOIGOIGI

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It was one of those clear sharp mustless daysB
That summer and man delight inC
Never had Heaven seemed quite so highD
Never had earth seemed quite so greenE
Never had the world seemed quite so cleanE
Or sky so nighD
And I heard the Deity's voice inC
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The sun's warm raysB
And the white cloud's intricate mazeB
And the blue sky's beautiful sheenE
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I looked to the heavens and saw him thereF
A black speck downward driftingG
Nearer and nearer he steadily sailedH
Nearer and nearer he slid through spaceI
In an unending aerial raceI
This sailor who hailedH
From the Clime of the Clouds Ever shiftingG
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On billows of airF
And the blue sky seemed never so fairF
And the rest of the world kept paceI
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On the white of his head the sun flashed brightJ
And he battled the wind with wide pinionsI
Clearer and clearer the gale whistled loudK
Clearer and clearer he came into viewL
Bigger and blacker against the blueL
Then a dragon of cloudK
Gathering all its minionsI
Rushed to the fightJ
And swallowed him up in a biteJ
And the sky lay empty clear throughL
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Long I watched And at last afarM
Caught sight of a speck in the vastnessI
Ever smaller ever decreasingG
Ever drifting drifting awayInto the endless realms of dayN
Finally ceasingG
So into Heaven's vast fastnessI
Vanished that barM
Of black as a fluttering starM
Goes out while still on its wayN
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So I lost him But I shall always seeI
In my mindO
The warm yellow sun and the ether freeI
The vista's sky and the white cloud trailingG
Trailing behindO
And below the young earth's summer green arborsI
And on high the eagle sailing sailingG
Into far skies and unknown harborsI

E. E. Cummings



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