Wings In The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB CFGH IJKJ LMGM NOPO QBRB| Now in the soft spring midnight | A |
| There's rush of wings and whirr | B |
| Birds flying softly swiftly | C |
| The night's a flutter a stir | B |
| - | |
| Home by the bitter seas | D |
| They have sped home together | B |
| So glad to be coming home | E |
| To the grey hills the grey weather | B |
| - | |
| Calling and calling softly | C |
| One lights by the window pane | F |
| The rook weary with building | G |
| Turns to his sleep again | H |
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| Ere ever the moor hens wake | I |
| And the wild duck come in | J |
| The birds are about the house | K |
| With a long call and thin | J |
| - | |
| They have wakened the wood pigeon | L |
| To make her plaintive moan | M |
| The wood pigeon lamenting | G |
| For sorrows not her own | M |
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| Oh they are never birds | N |
| But souls of men on the wind | O |
| Seeking the mother's breast | P |
| The heart that is soft and kind | O |
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| Souls of the Irish dead | Q |
| Flown from the fields of slaughter | B |
| Home to the mother's arms | R |
| Over the wild grey water | B |
Katharine Tynan
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