The Swing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGFHII JKEELL MMNNAAOPLLQQLLIt was like floating in a blessed dream to roam | A |
Across green meadows far from home | A |
With only trees and quivering sky to hedge the sight | B |
Dazzling the eyes with strange delight | B |
Such wide wide fields I had never seen and never dreamed | C |
Could be and wonderful it seemed | C |
To wander over green and under green and run | D |
Unwatched even of the shining sun | D |
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One tree there was that held a wrinkled creaking bough | E |
Far over the grass hanging low | F |
And a swing from it hanging drew us near and made | G |
New brightness beneath that doming shade | G |
For there my sisters swung long hours delightedly | F |
And there delighted clambered I | H |
And all our voices shrilled as one when up we flung | I |
And into the stinging sharp leaves swung | I |
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Then in a garden dense with bramble and sweet flowers | J |
Where honeysuckle a new sweetness pours | K |
We sat and ate and drank Well I remember how | E |
We were all shaded by one bough | E |
Bending with red fruit over our uplifted eyes | L |
Teasing our well watched covetousness | L |
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And then we went back happy to the empty swing | M |
But I was tired of everything | M |
Except the grass and trees and the wide shadows there | N |
Widening slowly everywhere | N |
It was like swinging in a solemn dream to roam | A |
In a strange air far from home | A |
Until I saw the shadows suddenly wake and move | O |
And float float down from above | P |
Then I ran quickly back round the large gloomy trees | L |
O with what shivering unease | L |
And stumbled where they waited and was far too glad | Q |
Finding them to be afraid or sad | Q |
Then waited an unforgetting year once more to see | L |
So wide a sky so great a tree | L |
John Frederick Freeman
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