Falconry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACD EFGHIJKLMLNO PQLRO| A prince survives by unseen acts | A |
| At night the chief advisor knocked | B |
| at Frederick's workroom in the tower | C |
| and found him formulating facts | A |
| for treatises on wing d power | C |
| while his penman turned out text | D |
| - | |
| It was in this aerie room | E |
| he'd walked all night with her on arm | F |
| turbulent and barely fledged | G |
| Whatever plans then sprang to mind | H |
| whatever fondness deeply chimed | I |
| in recollection he would trash | J |
| and tend the frightened and impassioned | K |
| thing he wished to understand | L |
| Every night he made a time | M |
| for nothing but the young unhandled | L |
| animal It was her staring | N |
| inborn mind he'd worked to learn | O |
| - | |
| so he was lofted with her grace | P |
| when she the bird that nobles praise | Q |
| thrown gleaming from his hand her wingbeats raised | L |
| into the heartfelt morning air | R |
| and diving like an angel struck the hern | O |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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