The Bittern. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CDD EEE FFF DDD BBBB GGG HHH III BBB| The reeds are idly waving o'er the marshy ground | A |
| The rank and ragged herbage rots on many a mound | A |
| And desolate pools and marshes deadly lie around | A |
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| There is no life nor motion save the winds that fly | B |
| With the close muffled clouds in silence through the sky | B |
| There is no sound to stir it save the Bittern's cry | B |
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| The Bittern sitting sadly on the fluted edges | C |
| Of pillars once the prop and pride of palace ledges | D |
| Now smear'd with damp decay and sunk in slimy sedges | D |
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| Shatter'd and sunken with the sculptured architrave | E |
| Peering above the surface of the sluggish wave | E |
| Like a gaunt limb thrust fleshless from a shallow grave | E |
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| The Bittern sitteth sadly on the time worn stone | F |
| Upon life's mouldering relics fearfully alone | F |
| Searing the silence ofttimes with his solemn tone | F |
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| The Bittern monarch of the sad and dreary place | D |
| Mocking the pride and pageant of a ruin'd race | D |
| Whose very name's forgotten and whose deeds have left no trace | D |
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| The pleasant songs of peace the lute the lover's sigh | B |
| The statesman's eloquence the warrior's battle cry | B |
| Have pass'd and like their echo from the heedless sky | B |
| The lonely Bittern's note comes sadly floating by | B |
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| Oh melancholy sound Shall thus for ever end | G |
| The glory and the greatness whither all hopes tend | G |
| And as the Past comes booming shall the Present wend | G |
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| No ear to listen to the old and hard earn'd glory | H |
| That wore the heart out made the locks grow scant and hoary | H |
| No ear to listen and no tongue to tell the story | H |
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| The Bittern sitteth 'midst the marshes of the Past | I |
| Sitteth amidst the ruins whilst the hours fleet fast | I |
| And at his own hoarse cry he looketh round aghast | I |
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| The hours fleet fast unnoted and the time is nigh | B |
| When even he on noiseless wings shall soar on high | B |
| Till his deep note is lost amid the azure sky | B |
Walter R. Cassels
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