The Flight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC AAAA DEDE AFAF GHGI JAAA| When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread | A |
| Too near to where they lay | B |
| They lifted neither voice nor head | A |
| But took themselves away | B |
| - | |
| No water broke no pinion whirred | A |
| There went no warning call | C |
| The steely sheltering rushes stirred | A |
| A little that was all | C |
| - | |
| Only the osiers understood | A |
| And the drowned meadows spied | A |
| What else than wreckage of a flood | A |
| Stole outward on that tide | A |
| - | |
| But the far beaches saw their ranks | D |
| Gather and greet and grow | E |
| By myriads on the naked banks | D |
| Watching their sign to go | E |
| - | |
| Till with a roar of wings that churned | A |
| The shivering shoals to foam | F |
| Flight after flight took air and turned | A |
| To find a safer home | F |
| - | |
| And far below their steadfast wedge | G |
| They heard and hastened on | H |
| Men thresh and clamour through the sedge | G |
| Aghast that they were gone | I |
| - | |
| And when men prayed them come anew | J |
| And nest where they were bred | A |
| quot Nay fools foretell what knaves will do quot | A |
| Was all the grey geese said | A |
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