The Blue Swallows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFAGGHIJK LMNOPQQRSMTSUVWVEGXY Z A2B2YYC2| Across the millstream below the bridge | A |
| Seven blue swallows divide the air | B |
| In shapes invisible and evanescent | C |
| Kaleidoscopic beyond the mind s | D |
| Or memory s power to keep them there | B |
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| History is where tensions were | E |
| Form is the diagram of forces | F |
| Thus helplessly there on the bridge | A |
| While gazing down upon those birds | G |
| How strange to be above the birds | G |
| Thus helplessly the mind in its brain | H |
| Weaves up relation s spindrift web | I |
| Seeing the swallows tails as nibs | J |
| Dipped in invisible ink writing | K |
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| Poor mind what would you have them write | L |
| Some cabalistic history | M |
| Whose authorship you might ascribe | N |
| To God to Nature Ah poor ghost | O |
| You ve capitalized your Self enough | P |
| That villainous William of Occam | Q |
| Cut out the feet from under that dream | Q |
| Some seven centuries ago | R |
| It s taken that long for the mind | S |
| To waken yawn and stretch to see | M |
| With opened eyes emptied of speech | T |
| The real world where the spelling mind | S |
| Imposes with its grammar book | U |
| Unreal relations on the blue | V |
| Swallows Perhaps when you will have | W |
| Fully awakened I shall show you | V |
| A new thing even the water | E |
| Flowing away beneath those birds | G |
| Will fail to reflect their flying forms | X |
| And the eyes that see become as stones | Y |
| Whence never tears shall fall again | Z |
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| O swallows swallows poems are not | A2 |
| The point Finding again the world | B2 |
| That is the point where loveliness | Y |
| Adorns intelligible things | Y |
| Because the mind s eye lit the sun | C2 |
Howard Nemerov
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