Night-fliers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECF GEECEEEBE| THE birds that soar break space | A |
| Like heavy bodies hurled | B |
| Not so the birds of night | C |
| They move as in a sphere | D |
| On which they touch always | E |
| How patterned their flight | C |
| The owl the whippoorwill | F |
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| And like volcano's ash | G |
| His plumes all cinderous | E |
| Black mirrors are his eyes | E |
| The owl's They'll fill with light | C |
| What time will come the cries | E |
| As from tongues taut with dews | E |
| The whippoorwills What sounds | E |
| Are in their day lost world | B |
| What motions and what hues | E |
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