Sweeney Among The Nightingales Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GAHA IJKJ LAAA LAMA HNAN AOKO PQKQ RSTS| Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees | A |
| Letting his arms hang down to laugh | B |
| The zebra stripes along his jaw | C |
| Swelling to maculate giraffe | B |
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| The circles of the stormy moon | D |
| Slide westward toward the River Plate | E |
| Death and the Raven drift above | F |
| And Sweeney guards the horn egrave d gate | E |
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| Gloomy Orion and the Dog | G |
| Are veiled and hushed the shrunken seas | A |
| The person in the Spanish cape | H |
| Tries to sit on Sweeney's knees | A |
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| Slips and pulls the table cloth | I |
| Overturns a coffee cup | J |
| Reorganised upon the floor | K |
| She yawns and draws a stocking up | J |
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| The silent man in mocha brown | L |
| Sprawls at the window sill and gapes | A |
| The waiter brings in oranges | A |
| Bananas figs and hothouse grapes | A |
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| The silent vertebrate in brown | L |
| Contracts and concentrates withdraws | A |
| Rachel n eacute e Rabinovitch | M |
| Tears at the grapes with murderous paws | A |
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| She and the lady in the cape | H |
| Are suspect thought to be in league | N |
| Therefore the man with heavy eyes | A |
| Declines the gambit shows fatigue | N |
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| Leaves the room and reappears | A |
| Outside the window leaning in | O |
| Branches of wistaria | K |
| Circumscribe a golden grin | O |
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| The host with someone indistinct | P |
| Converses at the door apart | Q |
| The nightingales are singing near | K |
| The Convent of the Sacred Heart | Q |
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| And sang within the bloody wood | R |
| When Agamemnon cried aloud | S |
| And let their liquid siftings fall | T |
| To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud | S |
T. S. Eliot
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