Flight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJBGBG KEKELDLD CMNMBEIE| On silver sand where ripples curled | A |
| I counted sea gulls seven | B |
| Shy secret screened from all the world | A |
| And innocent as heaven | B |
| They did not of my nearness know | C |
| For dawn was barely bright | D |
| And they were still like spots of snow | C |
| In that pale pearly light | D |
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| Then one went forth unto the sea | E |
| That rippled up in gold | F |
| And there were rubies flashing free | E |
| From out its wing unfold | F |
| It ducked and dived in pretty play | G |
| The while the other six | H |
| So gravely sat it seemed that they | G |
| Were marvelled by its tricks | H |
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| Then with a sudden flurry each | I |
| Down rushed to join its mate | J |
| And in a flash that sickle beach | I |
| With rapture was elate | J |
| With joy they pranked till everyone | B |
| Was diamonded with spray | G |
| Then flicked with flame to greet the sun | B |
| They rose and winged away | G |
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| But with their going oh the surge | K |
| Of loss they left in me | E |
| For in my heart was born the urge | K |
| The passion to be free | E |
| And where each dawn with terror brings | L |
| Some tale of bale and blight | D |
| Who would not envy silver wings | L |
| The sea gull in its flight | D |
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| Let me not know the soils of woe | C |
| That chain this stricken earth | M |
| Let me forget the fear and fret | N |
| That bind men from their birth | M |
| Let me be the one with wind and sun | B |
| With earth and sky and sea | E |
| Oh let me teach in living speech | I |
| God's glory Liberty | E |
Robert Service
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