Thomas Ross, Jr. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAAHAICJKCLMN| This I saw with my own eyes | A |
| A cliff swallow | B |
| Made her nest in a hole of the high clay bank | C |
| There near Miller's Ford | D |
| But no sooner were the young hatched | E |
| Than a snake crawled up to the nest | F |
| To devour the brood | G |
| Then the mother swallow with swift flutterings | A |
| And shrill cries | A |
| Fought at the snake | H |
| Blinding him with the beat of her wings | A |
| Until he wriggling and rearing his head | I |
| Fell backward down the bank | C |
| Into Spoon River and was drowned | J |
| Scarcely an hour passed | K |
| Until a shrike | C |
| Impaled the mother swallow on a thorn | L |
| As for myself I overcame my lower nature | M |
| Only to be destroyed by my brother's ambition | N |
Edgar Lee Masters
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