The Eagle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEEDC BBE FGHIIHG FFI JIKLLKIJJL MIGNGIMMN IOIGOIGIA | |
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It was one of those clear sharp mustless days | B |
That summer and man delight in | C |
Never had Heaven seemed quite so high | D |
Never had earth seemed quite so green | E |
Never had the world seemed quite so clean | E |
Or sky so nigh | D |
And I heard the Deity's voice in | C |
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The sun's warm rays | B |
And the white cloud's intricate maze | B |
And the blue sky's beautiful sheen | E |
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I looked to the heavens and saw him there | F |
A black speck downward drifting | G |
Nearer and nearer he steadily sailed | H |
Nearer and nearer he slid through space | I |
In an unending aerial race | I |
This sailor who hailed | H |
From the Clime of the Clouds Ever shifting | G |
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On billows of air | F |
And the blue sky seemed never so fair | F |
And the rest of the world kept pace | I |
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On the white of his head the sun flashed bright | J |
And he battled the wind with wide pinions | I |
Clearer and clearer the gale whistled loud | K |
Clearer and clearer he came into view | L |
Bigger and blacker against the blue | L |
Then a dragon of cloud | K |
Gathering all its minions | I |
Rushed to the fight | J |
And swallowed him up in a bite | J |
And the sky lay empty clear through | L |
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Long I watched And at last afar | M |
Caught sight of a speck in the vastness | I |
Ever smaller ever decreasing | G |
Ever drifting drifting awayInto the endless realms of day | N |
Finally ceasing | G |
So into Heaven's vast fastness | I |
Vanished that bar | M |
Of black as a fluttering star | M |
Goes out while still on its way | N |
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So I lost him But I shall always see | I |
In my mind | O |
The warm yellow sun and the ether free | I |
The vista's sky and the white cloud trailing | G |
Trailing behind | O |
And below the young earth's summer green arbors | I |
And on high the eagle sailing sailing | G |
Into far skies and unknown harbors | I |
E. E. Cummings
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