The Swan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEFG HIJK FLMN OPQR BSTU VWXY ZA2BB2 C2JXX BEKD2| I'll leave the mortal world behind | A |
| Take wing in an flight fantastical | B |
| With singing my eternal soul | B |
| Will rise up swan like in the air | C |
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| Possessing two immortal traits | D |
| In Purgatory I won't not linger | E |
| But rising over jealousy | F |
| I'll leave behind me kingdoms' shine | G |
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| 'Tis so Though not renowned by birth | H |
| I am the muses favorite | I |
| From other notables a world apart | J |
| I'll be preferred by death itself | K |
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| The tomb will not confine me | F |
| I will not turn to dust among the stars | L |
| But like a heavenly set of pipes | M |
| My voice will ring out from the sky | N |
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| And now I see that feathered skin | O |
| My figure covers all around | P |
| My breast is downy and my back is winged | Q |
| I shine with pearly swan like white | R |
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| I fly I soar and see below | B |
| The world entire oceans woods | S |
| Like mountains they lift up their heads | T |
| To hear my lofty hymn to God | U |
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| From Kuril Islands to the river Bug | V |
| From White Sea to the Caspian | W |
| Peoples from half the world | X |
| Of whom the Russian race's comprised | Y |
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| Will hear of me in time | Z |
| Slavs Huns the Scythians and Finns | A2 |
| And others locked today in battle | B |
| Will point at me and they'll pronounce | B2 |
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| quot There flies the one who tuned his lyre | C2 |
| To speak the language of the heart | J |
| And preaching peace to the whole world | X |
| Enjoyed the happiness of all quot | X |
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| Forget a big and stately funeral | B |
| My friends Cease singing muses' choir | E |
| My wife With patience gird yourself | K |
| Don't keen upon what seems a corpse | D2 |
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
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