Condors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHB HHHIHIJKHLMNKH| I CONDORS FLYING | A |
| WE watched the Condors winging towards the Moon | B |
| A Moon that glimmered in the blue daylight | C |
| Around us were the Andes and beyond | D |
| Andes the Ocean empty like the Moon | B |
| I heard you speak in Atahualpa's tongue | E |
| Then distances grew present all the range | F |
| Of Condors' wings between my thought your thought | G |
| As though they had transcended need for wings | H |
| We watched the Condors winging towards the Moon | B |
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| II CONDORS IN THE JARDIN DES PLANTES | H |
| To sink into the depths we need take weights | H |
| Put on such armour as our divers use | H |
| To rise above the fathomed we must bear | I |
| Weights and you are weighted for emprise | H |
| Of rising to where flows the thinnest air | I |
| And here beneath our towers you roost and run | J |
| And trail your wings I think I know your pain | K |
| Your pain and weariness | H |
| Like divers are ye that perpetually | L |
| Plated in metal make circuit about | M |
| Where some sidereal gesture has withdrawn | N |
| The tides the main | K |
| Condors with shuttered iron heavy wings | H |
Padraic Colum
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