Crows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGFBHDIJK LMNO PDQRSTDU| THEN suddenly I was aware indeed | A |
| Of what he said and was revolving it | B |
| How in the night crows often take to wing | C |
| Rising from off the tree tops in Drumbarr | D |
| And flying on I pictured what he told | E |
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| The crows that shake the night damp off their wings | F |
| Upon the stones out yonder in the fields | G |
| The first live things that we see in the mornings | F |
| The crows that march across the fields that sit | B |
| Upon the ash trees' branches that fly home | H |
| And crowd the elm tops over in Drumbarr | D |
| The crows we look on at all hours of light | I |
| Growing and full and going these black beings have | J |
| Another lifetime | K |
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| Crows flying in the dark | L |
| Blackness in darkness flying beings unseen | M |
| Except by eyes that are like to their own | N |
| Trespassers' eyes | O |
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| And you old man with eyes so quick and sharp | P |
| Who've told me of the crows my fosterer | D |
| And you old woman upon whose lap I've lain | Q |
| When I was taken from my mother's lap | R |
| And you young girl with looks that have come down | S |
| From forefathers my kin ye have another life | T |
| I've glimpsed it I becoming trespasser | D |
| Blackness in darkness flying like the crows | U |
Padraic Colum
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