The Fowls Flying In The Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDD E FGAAHHAACCAA| Methinks I see a sight most excellent | A |
| All sorts of birds fly in the firmament | A |
| Some great some small all of a divers kind | A |
| Mine eye affecting pleasant to my mind | A |
| Look how they tumble in the wholesome air | B |
| Above the world of worldlings and their care | B |
| And as they divers are in bulk and hue | C |
| So are they in their way of flying too | C |
| So many birds so many various things | D |
| Tumbling i' the element upon their wings | D |
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| Comparison | E |
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| These birds are emblems of those men that shall | F |
| Ere long possess the heavens their all in all | G |
| They are each of a diverse shape and kind | A |
| To teach we of all nations there shall find | A |
| They are some great some little as we see | H |
| To show some great some small in glory be | H |
| Their flying diversely as we behold | A |
| Do show saints' joys will there be manifold | A |
| Some glide some mount some flutter and some do | C |
| In a mix'd way of flying glory too | C |
| And all to show each saint to his content | A |
| Shall roll and tumble in that firmament | A |
John Bunyan
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