Song Of The Aviator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEE FGHDGII JGKDGLL| You may thrill with the speed of your thoroughbred steed | A |
| You may laugh with delight as you ride the ocean | B |
| You may rush afar in your touring car | C |
| Leaping sweeping by things that are creeping | D |
| But you never will know the joy of motion | B |
| Till you rise up over the earth some day | E |
| And soar like an eagle away away | E |
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| High and higher above each spire | F |
| Till lost to sight is the tallest steeple | G |
| With the winds you chase in a valiant race | H |
| Looping swooping where mountains are grouping | D |
| Hailing them comrades in place of people | G |
| Oh vast is the rapture the birdman knows | I |
| As into the ether he mounts and goes | I |
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| He is over the sphere of human fear | J |
| He has come into touch with things supernal | G |
| At each man's gate death stands await | K |
| And dying flying were better than lying | D |
| In sick beds crying for life eternal | G |
| Better to fly half way to God | L |
| Than to burrow too long like a worm in the sod | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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