The Wild Geese Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB DCDC FGHG IDID| Wild geese fly overhead | A |
| In the wild Autumn weather | B |
| Souls of the newly dead | A |
| Crying and flying together | B |
| - | |
| Home from the last great fight | C |
| The souls of the Irish farin' | D |
| With a wild heart in the night | C |
| A grey eye turned to Erin | D |
| - | |
| High and high in the sky | E |
| From the red fields of slaughter | B |
| Ever they fly and cry | E |
| For the brown bog the grey water | B |
| - | |
| Wild geese in the wild even | D |
| Steady and strong their flight | C |
| Their beds are made in Heaven | D |
| All of the down white | C |
| - | |
| They have forgone that bliss | F |
| Till they have seen once more | G |
| The little land of peace | H |
| Green and bright as of yore | G |
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| High o'er the sheep and cattle | I |
| The bogs and the mountains lone | D |
| The souls new home from the battle | I |
| Cry their love and are flown | D |
Katharine Tynan
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