On Avon's Breast I Saw A Stately Swan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACA DCDBD BECE B| One day when England's June was at its best | A |
| I saw a stately and imperious swan | B |
| Floating on Avon's fair untroubled breast | A |
| Sudden it seemed as if all strife had gone | C |
| Out of the world all discord all unrest | A |
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| The sorrows and the sinnings of the race | D |
| Faded away like nightmares in the dawn | C |
| All heaven was one blue background for the grace | D |
| Of Avon's beautiful slow moving swan | B |
| And earth held nothing mean or commonplace | D |
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| Life seemed no longer to be hurrying on | B |
| With unbecoming haste but softly trod | E |
| As one who reads in emerald leaf or lawn | C |
| Or crimson rose a message straight from God | E |
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| On Avon's breast I saw a stately swan | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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