Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD CC EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM CC NN OP KQ AA CC

What a twitter what a tumult what a whirr of wheeling wingsA
Birds of Passage hear the message which the Equinoctial bringsA
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Birds of Passage hear the message and beneath the flying cloudsB
Mid the falling leaves of autumn congregate in clamorous crowdsB
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Shall they venture on the voyage are the nestlings fledged for flightC
Fit to face the fluctuant storm winds and the elemental nightC
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What a twitter what a tumult to the wild wind's marching songD
Multitudinous Birds of Passage round the cliffs of England throngD
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And o'er tempest trodden Ocean cloud entangled day and nightC
Birds on birds in corporate motion wing a commonwealth in flightC
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Waves like hollow graves beneath them hoarsely howling yawn for preyE
And the welkin glooms above them shifting formless grey in greyE
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And across the Bay of Biscay on undaunted wing they fleeF
Where mild seas move musically murmuring of the OdysseyF
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Where the gurgling whirlpools glitter and by soft Circean StraitsG
Fell Charybdis lies in ambush and the ravenous Scylla waitsG
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Where a large Homeric laughter lingers in the echoing cavesH
And in playful exultation Dolphins leap from dimpling wavesH
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Where above the fair Sicilian flock browsed flower pranked meadows loomsI
tna hoariest of Volcanoes ominously veiled in fumesI
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Where the seas roll blue and bluer high and higher arch the skiesJ
And as measureless as ocean new horizons meet the eyesJ
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Where at night the ancient heavens bend above the ancient earthK
With the young eyed Stars enkindled fresh as at their hour of birthK
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Where old Egypt's desert stretching leagues on leagues of level landL
Gleams with threads of channelled waters green with palms on either handL
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Where the Fellah strides majestic through the glimmering dourah plainM
And in rosy flames flamingoes rise from rustling sugar caneM
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On and on along old Nilus seeking still an ampler lightC
O'er its monumental mountains Birds of Passage take their flightC
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Where the sacred Isle of Phil twinned within the sacred streamN
Floats like some rapt Opium eater's labyrinthine lotos dreamN
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Birds on birds take up their quarters in each creviced capitalO
In each crack of frieze and cornice in each cleft of roof and wallP
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And within those twilight litten holy halls of Death and BirthK
Even the gaily twittering swallows even the swallows hush their breathQ
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And they cast the passing shadows of their palpitating wingsA
O'er the fallen gods of Egypt and the prostrate heads of KingsA
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Even as shadows Birds of Passage cast upon their onward flightC
Have men's generations vanished waned and vanished into nightC

Mathilde Blind



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