The Dead Aviator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLML NOPO QLRL SKTK MUVU WXYX ZA2B2A2 ABCB| So endlessly the gray lipped sea | A |
| Kept me within his eye | B |
| And lean he licked his hollow flanks | C |
| And followed up the sky | B |
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| I was the lark whose song was heard | D |
| When I was lost to sight | E |
| I was the golden arrow loosed | F |
| To pierce the heart of night | E |
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| I fled the little earth I climbed | G |
| Above the rising sun | H |
| I met the morning in a blaze | I |
| Before my hour was gone | J |
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| I ran beyond the rim of space | K |
| Its reins I flung aside | L |
| Laughter was mine and mine was youth | M |
| And all my own was pride | L |
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| From end to end I knew the way | N |
| I had no doubt nor fear | O |
| The minutes were a forfeit paid | P |
| To fetch the landfall near | O |
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| But all at once my heart I held | Q |
| My carol frozen died | L |
| A white cloud laid her cheek to mine | R |
| And wove me to her side | L |
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| Her icy fingers clasped my flesh | S |
| Her hair drooped in my face | K |
| And up we fell and down we rose | T |
| And twisted into space | K |
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| Laughter was mine and mine was youth | M |
| I pressed the edge of life | U |
| I kissed the sun and raced the wind | V |
| I found immortal strife | U |
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| Out of myself I spent myself | W |
| I lost the mortal share | X |
| My grave is in the ashen plain | Y |
| My spirit in the air | X |
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| Good bye sweet pride of man that flew | Z |
| Sweet pain of man that bled | A2 |
| I was the lark that spilled his heart | B2 |
| The golden arrow sped | A2 |
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| So endlessly the gray lipped sea | A |
| Kept me within his eye | B |
| And lean he licked his hollow flanks | C |
| And followed up the sky | B |
Francis Hackett
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