To The Flying-fish.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGG BBHIJKLL MMAANNOOPPQQ| When I have seen thy snow white wing | A |
| From the blue wave at evening spring | A |
| And show those scales of silvery white | B |
| So gayly to the eye of light | B |
| As if thy frame were formed to rise | C |
| And live amid the glorious skies | C |
| Oh it has made me proudly feel | D |
| How like thy wing's impatient zeal | D |
| Is the pure soul that rests not pent | E |
| Within this world's gross element | F |
| But takes the wing that God has given | G |
| And rises into light and heaven | G |
| - | |
| But when I see that wing so bright | B |
| Grow languid with a moment's flight | B |
| Attempt the paths of air in vain | H |
| And sink into the waves again | I |
| Alas the flattering pride is o'er | J |
| Like thee awhile the soul may soar | K |
| But erring man must blush to think | L |
| Like thee again the soul may sink | L |
| - | |
| Oh Virtue when thy clime I seek | M |
| Let not my spirit's flight be weak | M |
| Let me not like this feeble thing | A |
| With brine still dropping from its wing | A |
| Just sparkle in the solar glow | N |
| And plunge again to depths below | N |
| But when I leave the grosser throng | O |
| With whom my soul hath dwelt so long | O |
| Let me in that aspiring day | P |
| Cast every lingering stain away | P |
| And panting for thy purer air | Q |
| Fly up at once and fix me there | Q |
Thomas Moore
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