The Black Swan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EFFAG HIFJF JKLMN JOJFP| When the swans turned my sister into a swan | A |
| I would go to the lake at night from milking | B |
| The sun would look out through the reeds like a swan | A |
| A swan's red beak and the beak would open | C |
| And inside there was darkness the stars and the moon | D |
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| Out on the lake a girl would laugh | E |
| Sister here is your porridge sister | F |
| I would call and the reeds would whisper | F |
| Go to sleep go to sleep little swan | A |
| My legs were all hard and webbed and the silky | G |
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| Hairs of my wings sank away like stars | H |
| In the ripples that ran in and out of the reeds | I |
| I heard through the lap and hiss of water | F |
| Someone's Sister sister far away on the shore | J |
| And then as I opened my beak to answer | F |
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| I heard my harsh laugh go out to the shore | J |
| And saw saw at last swimming up from the green | K |
| Low mounds of the lake the white stone swans | L |
| The white named swans It is all a dream | M |
| I whispered and reached from the down of the pallet | N |
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| To the lap and hiss of the floor | J |
| And Sleep little sister the swan all sang | O |
| From the moon and stars and frogs of the floor | J |
| But the swan my sister called Sleep at last little sister | F |
| And stroked all night with a black wing my wings | P |
Randall Jarrell
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