The Hawk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDBC EFBBEF EBBBEB EGHHEG EEIIEE ABCDDBCSwoop 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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