The Hawk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDBC EFBBEF EBBBEB EGHHEG EEIIEE ABCDDBC| Swoop Swoop | A |
| From dizzy skies thou singest | B |
| To the shining earth | C |
| To where unseen | D |
| Amid the green | D |
| Untimely death thou bringest | B |
| To unseeing mirth | C |
| - | |
| Upon a dark crag peering | E |
| Through half eclipsed eye | F |
| An eye unkind | B |
| Dost meet the wind | B |
| With lifted head all hearing | E |
| In the algid sky | F |
| - | |
| What awful thought is sitting | E |
| In thy brain and breast | B |
| That beats thy blood | B |
| With throbbing flood | B |
| When linnets come night flitting | E |
| To their night tide nest | B |
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| Neath wind torn skies fast speeding | E |
| As the clouds above | G |
| Dost skim and sail | H |
| With wedge wrought tail | H |
| Mid fledglings sweetly pleading | E |
| to departed love | G |
| - | |
| Where is that love low lying | E |
| In a God made thing | E |
| Of feathered form | I |
| Is thy blood warm | I |
| Thou bloody thing swift flying | E |
| That canst never sing | E |
| - | |
| Swoop Swoop | A |
| From dizzy skies thou swingest | B |
| To the singing earth | C |
| To where unseen | D |
| Amid the green | D |
| Untimely death though bringest | B |
| To unseeing mirth | C |
Leon Gellert
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