The Swing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGFHII JKEELL MMNNAAOPLLQQLL| It 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 Freeman
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