Visions - Sonnet - 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| I saw a silver swan swim down the Lea | A |
| Singing a sad farewell unto the vale | B |
| While fishes leapt to hear her melody | A |
| And on each thorn a gentle nightingale | B |
| And many other birds forbore their notes | C |
| Leaping from tree to tree as she along | D |
| The panting bosom of the current floats | C |
| Rapt with the music of her dying song | D |
| When from a thick and all entangled spring | E |
| A neatherd rude came with no small ado | F |
| Dreading an ill presage to hear her sing | E |
| And quickly struck her tender neck in two | F |
| Whereat the birds methought flew thence with speed | G |
| And inly griev'd for such a cruel deed | G |
William Browne
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