To A Waterfowl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ| Whither midst falling dew | A |
| While glow the heavens with the last steps of day | B |
| Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue | A |
| Thy solitary way | B |
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| Vainly the fowler's eye | C |
| Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong | D |
| As darkly painted on the crimson sky | C |
| Thy figure floats along | D |
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| Seek'st thou the plashy brink | E |
| Of weedy lake or marge of river wide | F |
| Or where the rocking billows rise and sink | E |
| On the chafed ocean side | F |
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| There is a Power whose care | G |
| Teaches thy way along that pathless coast | H |
| The desert and illimitable air | G |
| Lone wandering but not lost | I |
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| All day thy wings have fanned | J |
| At that far height the cold thin atmosphere | K |
| Yet stoop not weary to the welcome land | J |
| Though the dark night is near | K |
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| And soon that toil shall end | L |
| Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest | M |
| And scream among thy fellows reeds shall bend | L |
| Soon o'er thy sheltered nest | M |
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| Thou'rt gone the abyss of heaven | N |
| Hath swallowed up thy form yet on my heart | O |
| Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given | N |
| And shall not soon depart | O |
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| He who from zone to zone | P |
| Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight | Q |
| In the long way that I must tread alone | P |
| Will lead my steps aright | Q |
William Cullen Bryant
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