For The Airmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF GG HH II JK LL MM BB BB MM| THOU who guidest the swallow and wren | A |
| Keep the paths of the flying men | A |
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| Over the mountains over the seas | B |
| Thou hast given the bird folk compasses | B |
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| Thou guidest them yea Thou leadest them home | C |
| By the trackless ways and the venturesome | D |
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| Look Thou then on these bird men far | E |
| More than the sparrows and swallows are | E |
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| When they fly in the wintry weather | F |
| Be their compass and chart together | F |
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| Keep them riding the wind Uphold | G |
| Their passion of flight lest it grow cold | G |
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| Thy right hand be under the wing | H |
| Thy left hand for their steadying | H |
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| The Wings of the birds of Heaven be nigh | I |
| Lest their wings fail them and they die | I |
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| Make Thou their flying as deft and fleet | J |
| As the flight of the linnet or the blue tit | K |
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| Thy hand over them shall they fear | L |
| The spears of lightning or any spear | L |
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| Thy hand under them what shall appal | M |
| Not the fierce foe nor the sudden fall | M |
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| Show them Thy moon at night Thy stars | B |
| Bid stand as sentinels in their wars | B |
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| Yea make their lone tracks pleasant as | B |
| A soft meandering path in grass | B |
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| Thou that launchest the wren the swallow | M |
| Guard our flying loves when they follow | M |
Katharine Tynan
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