The Falconer Of God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDADDBB EFCCEEEGHH EIJJKEKKII ELCCBEBBLL| I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying | A |
| I said Wait on wait on while I ride below | B |
| I shall start a heron soon | C |
| In the marsh beneath the moon | C |
| A strange white heron rising with silver on its wings | D |
| Rising and crying | A |
| Wordless wondrous things | D |
| The secret of the stars of the world s heart strings | D |
| The answer to their woe | B |
| Then stoop thou upon him and grip and hold him so | B |
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| My wild soul waited on as falcons hover | E |
| I beat the reedy fens as I trampled put | F |
| I heard the mournful loon | C |
| In the marsh beneath the moon | C |
| And then with feathery thunder the bird of my desire | E |
| Broke from the cover | E |
| Flashing silver fire | E |
| High up among the stars I saw his pinions spire | G |
| The pale clouds gazed aghast | H |
| As my falcon stooped upon him and gript and held him fast | H |
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| My soul dropped through the air with heavenly plunder | E |
| Gripping the dazzling bird my dreaming knew | I |
| Nay but a piteous freight | J |
| A dark and heavy weight | J |
| Despoiled of silver plumage its voice forever stilled | K |
| All of the wonder | E |
| Gone that ever filled | K |
| Its guise with glory O bird that I have killed | K |
| How brilliantly you flew | I |
| Across my rapturous vision when first I dreamed of you | I |
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| Yet I fling my soul on high with new endeavor | E |
| And I ride the world below with a joyful mind | L |
| I shall start a heron soon | C |
| In the marsh beneath the moon | C |
| A wondrous silver heron its inner darkness fledges | B |
| I beat forever | E |
| The fens and the sedges | B |
| The pledge is still the same for all disastrous pledges | B |
| All hopes resigned | L |
| My soul still flies above me for the quarry it shall find | L |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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