The Swallow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF DGDG HIHI JBJB| I am fond of the swallow I learn from her flight | A |
| Had I skill to improve it a lesson of love | B |
| How seldom on earth do we see her alight | A |
| She dwells in the skies she is ever above | B |
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| It is on the wing that she takes her repose | C |
| Suspended and poised in the regions of air | D |
| 'Tis not in our fields that her sustenance grows | C |
| It is winged like herself 'tis ethereal fare | D |
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| She comes in the spring all the summer she stays | E |
| And dreading the cold still follows the sun | F |
| So true to our love we should covet his rays | E |
| And the place where he shines not immediately shun | F |
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| Our light should be love and our nourishment prayer | D |
| It is dangerous food that we find upon earth | G |
| The fruit of this world is beset with a snare | D |
| In itself it is hurtful as vile in its birth | G |
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| 'Tis rarely if ever she settles below | H |
| And only when building a nest for her young | I |
| Were it not for her brood she would never bestow | H |
| A thought upon anything filthy as dung | I |
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| Let us leave it ourselves 'tis a mortal abode | J |
| To bask every moment in infinite love | B |
| Let us fly the dark winter and follow the road | J |
| That leads to the dayspring appearing above | B |
William Cowper
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