The Chimney-swallow's Idyl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMHNOPOQR STUVWXYZHA2B2C2ND2E2 QF2G2H2H2I2J2K2L2JAM 2N2Y| From where I built the nest for my first young | A |
| In the high chimney of this ancient house | B |
| I saw the household fires burn and go down | C |
| And know what was and is forever gone | D |
| My dusky swift winged fledgelings flying far | E |
| To seek their mates in clustered eaves or towers | F |
| Would linger not to learn what I have learned | G |
| Soaring through air or steering over sea | H |
| These single solitary walls must fade | I |
| But I return inhabiting my nest | J |
| A little simple bird which still survives | K |
| The noble souls now vanished from this hearth | L |
| And none are here besides but she who shares | M |
| My life and pensive vigil holds with me | H |
| No longer does she mourn she lives serene | N |
| I see her mother's beauty in her face | O |
| I see her father's quiet pride and power | P |
| The linked traits and traces of her race | O |
| Her brothers dying like strong sapling trees | Q |
| Hewn down by violent blows prone in dense woods | R |
| Covered with aged boughs decaying slow | S |
| She muses thus Beauty once more abides | T |
| The rude alarm of death its wild amaze | U |
| Is over now The chance of change has passed | V |
| No doubtful hopes are mine no restless dread | W |
| No last word to be spoken kiss to give | X |
| And take in passion's agony and end | Y |
| They cannot come to me but in good time | Z |
| I shall rejoin my silent company | H |
| And melt among them as the sunset clouds | A2 |
| Melt in gray spaces of the coming night | B2 |
| So she holds dear as I this tranquil spot | C2 |
| And all the flowers that blow and maze of green | N |
| The meadows daisy full or brown and sere | D2 |
| The shore which bounds the waves I love to skim | E2 |
| And dash my purple wings against the breeze | Q |
| When breaks the day I twitter loud and long | F2 |
| To make her rise and watch the vigorous sun | G2 |
| Come from his sea bed in the weltering deep | H2 |
| And smell the dewy grass still rank with sleep | H2 |
| I hover through the twilight round her eaves | I2 |
| And dart above before her in her path | J2 |
| Till with a smile she gives me all her mind | K2 |
| And in the deep of night lest she be sad | L2 |
| In sleepless thought I stir me in my nest | J |
| And murmur as I murmur to my young | A |
| She makes no answer but I know she hears | M2 |
| And all the cherished pictures in her thoughts | N2 |
| Grow bright because of me her swallow friend | Y |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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