The Nightjar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLIMNOPQDR S| We loved our nightjar but she would not stay with us | A |
| We had found her lying as dead but soft and warm | B |
| Under the apple tree beside the old thatched wall | C |
| Two days we kept her in a basket by the fire | D |
| Fed her and thought she well might live till suddenly | E |
| I the very moment of most confiding hope | F |
| She arised herself all tense qivered and drooped and died | G |
| Tears sprang into my eyes why not The heart of man | H |
| Soon sets itself to love a living companion | I |
| The more so if by chance it asks some care of him | J |
| And this one had the kind of loveliness that goes | K |
| Far deeper than the optic nerve full fathom five | L |
| To the soul socean cave where Wonder and Reason | I |
| Tell their alternate dreams of how the world was made | M |
| So wonderful she was her wings the wings of night | N |
| But powdered here and therewith tiny golden clouds | O |
| And wave line markings like sea ripples on the sand | P |
| O how I wish I might never forget that bird | Q |
| Never | D |
| But even now like all beauty of earth | R |
| She is fading from me into the dusk of Time | S |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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