Birds Of Passage (from The Swedish) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIBB JKLL| So hot shines the sun upon Nile's yellow stream | A |
| That the palm trees can save us no more from his beam | A |
| Now comes the desire for home in full force | B |
| And Northward our phalanx bends swiftly its course | B |
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| Now dim underneath us through distance we view | C |
| The green grassy earth and the ocean's deep blue | C |
| There tempests and frequent disasters arise | D |
| Whilst free and untroubled we wend through the skies | D |
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| Lo high among mountains a meadow lies spread | E |
| And there we alight and get ready our bed | E |
| There hatch we our eggs and beneath the chill pole | F |
| We wait while the summer months over us roll | F |
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| No hunter desirous to make us his prey | G |
| Invades our lone valley by night or by day | G |
| But green mantled fairies their merry routs hold | H |
| And fearless the pigmy there hammers its gold | H |
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| But when pallid winter again on the rocks | I |
| Shakes down in a shower the snow from his locks | I |
| Then comes the desire for heat in full force | B |
| And Southward our phalanx bends swiftly its course | B |
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| To the verdant Savannah and palm shaded plain | J |
| Where the Nile rolls his water we hurry again | K |
| There rest we till summer's sun waxing too hot | L |
| Makes us wish for our native our hill girded spot | L |
George Borrow
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