The Kestrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDADEFGHFIHEJAK BLMNNOO| In a great western wind we climbed the hill | A |
| And saw the clouds run up ride high and sink | B |
| And there were shadows running at our feet | C |
| Till it seemed the very earth could not be still | A |
| Nor could our hearts be still nor could we think | B |
| Our hearts could ever be still our thought less fleet | C |
| Than the dizzy clouds less than the flying wind | D |
| Eastward the valley and the dark steep hill | A |
| And other hills and valleys lost behind | D |
| In mist and light The hedges were not yet bare | E |
| Though the wind picked at them as he went by | F |
| The woods were fire a fire that dense or clear | G |
| Burned steady but could not burn up the shadows | H |
| Rooted where the trees' roots entangled lie | F |
| In darkness or a flame burned solitary | I |
| In the middle of the highest of brown meadows | H |
| Burned solitary and unconsuming where | E |
| A red tree stooped to its black shadow and | J |
| The kestrel's shadow hunted the kestrel up the hill | A |
| We climbed and as we stood where yet we stand | K |
| And of the visioned sun and shadow still drink | B |
| Happiness like a shadow chased our thought | L |
| That tossed on free wings up and down the world | M |
| Till by that wild swift darting shadow caught | N |
| Our free spirits their free pinions furled | N |
| Then as the kestrel began once more the heavens to climb | O |
| A new winged spirit rose clear above the hills of time | O |
John Frederick Freeman
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