The Windhover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBBB CDE DED| To Christ our Lord | A |
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| I CAUGHT this morning morning s minion king | B |
| dom of daylight s dauphin dapple dawn drawn Falcon in his riding | B |
| Of the rolling level underneath him steady air and striding | B |
| High there how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing | B |
| In his ecstasy then off off forth on swing | B |
| As a skate s heel sweeps smooth on a bow bend the hurl and gliding | B |
| Rebuffed the big wind My heart in hiding | B |
| Stirred for a bird the achieve of the mastery of the thing | B |
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| Brute beauty and valour and act oh air pride plume here | C |
| Buckle AND the fire that breaks from thee then a billion | D |
| Times told lovelier more dangerous O my chevalier | E |
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| No wonder of it sh er pl d makes plough down sillion | D |
| Shine and blue bleak embers ah my dear | E |
| Fall gall themselves and gash gold vermillion | D |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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