The Eagle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEEDC BBE FGHIIHG FFI JIKLLKIJJL MIGNGIMMN IOIGOIGI| A | |
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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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