Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Birds Of Passage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFE GGGH BBBH IIIJ KKKJ BBBL FFFL

Black shadows fallA
From the lindens tallA
That lift aloft their massive wallA
Against the southern skyB
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And from the realmsC
Of the shadowy elmsC
A tide like darkness overwhelmsC
The fields that round us lieB
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But the night is fairD
And everywhereD
A warm soft vapor fills the airD
And distant sounds seem nearE
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And above in the lightF
Of the star lit nightF
Swift birds of passage wing their flightF
Through the dewy atmosphereE
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I hear the beatG
Of their pinions fleetG
As from the land of snow and sleetG
They seek a southern leaH
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I hear the cryB
Of their voices highB
Falling dreamily through the skyB
But their forms I cannot seeH
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Oh say not soI
Those sounds that flowI
In murmurs of delight and woeI
Come not from wings of birdsJ
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They are the throngsK
Of the poet's songsK
Murmurs of pleasures and pains and wrongsK
The sound of winged wordsJ
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This is the cryB
Of souls that highB
On toiling beating pinions flyB
Seeking a warmer climeL
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From their distant flightF
Through realms of lightF
It falls into our world of nightF
With the murmuring sound of rhymeL

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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