As Kingfishers Catch Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBC DEEDEDAs kingfishers catch fire dragonflies dr aacute w fl aacute me | A |
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells | B |
Stones ring like each tucked string tells each hung bell's | B |
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name | C |
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same | C |
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells | B |
Selves goes itself myself it speaks and spells | B |
Crying Wh aacute t I do is me for that I came | C |
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Iacute say m oacute re the just man justices | D |
K eacute eps gr aacute ce that keeps all his goings graces | E |
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is | E |
Chr iacute st For Christ plays in ten thousand places | D |
Lovely in limbs and lovely in eyes not his | E |
To the Father through the features of men's faces | D |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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