Flight Of Swans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS T| One who sees giant Orion the torches of winter midnight | A |
| Enormously walking above the ocean in the west of heaven | B |
| And watches the track of this age of time at its peak of flight | A |
| Waver like a spent rocket wavering toward new discoveries | C |
| Mortal examinations of darkness soundings of depth | D |
| And watches the long coast mountain vibrate from bronze to green | E |
| Bronze to green year after year and all the streams | F |
| Dry and flooded dry and flooded in the racing seasons | G |
| And knows that exactly this and not another is the world | H |
| The ideal is phantoms for bait the spirit is a flicker on a grave | I |
| May serve with a certain detachment the fugitive human race | J |
| Or his own people or his own household but hardly himself | K |
| And will not wind himself into hopes nor sicken with despairs | L |
| He has found the peace and adored the God he handles in autumn | M |
| The germs of far future spring | N |
| Sad sons of the stormy fall | O |
| No escape you have to inflict and endure surely it is time for you | P |
| To learn to touch the diamond within to the diamond outside | Q |
| Thinning your humanity a little between the invulnerable diamonds | R |
| Knowing that your angry choices and hopes and terrors are in vain | S |
| But life and death not in vain and the world is like a flight of swans | T |
Robinson Jeffers
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