The Coo Of The Cushat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEEE FGHI JKEK LMEM NOPO EQRQ OSNSIQEQ ITIT| Over the smooth lawns broider'd with violets | A |
| Over the hedges of snow white thorn | B |
| Over the billowy pink apple blossoms | C |
| The musical coo of the cushat is borne | B |
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| In the still depths of the dim old plantations | D |
| Where the sweet whispering night wind stirs | E |
| The delicate scent from the dew sprinkled flowers | E |
| It sings by its nest in the tall green firs | E |
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| So peaceful so pure so divinely contented | F |
| The world out of sight and its true love nigh | G |
| Their little grey wings softly folded together | H |
| What dreams I have set to that melody | I |
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| I listen at dawn and I listen at even | J |
| I hear the notes bubbling all day long | K |
| Through the woodpecker's laugh and the chirp of the titmouse | E |
| Little dove yours is the sweetest song | K |
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| 'Tis not a sad song though it sets me a crying | L |
| But gladness too deep to be spoken aloud | M |
| Nor forlorn though 'tis sung in the loneliest places | E |
| But only too sacred to sing to a crowd | M |
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| I envy you though you're so small and so humble | N |
| I wish I were like you you shy little dove | O |
| So far from the world and so free from its passion | P |
| Yet sure of your white eggs and sure of your love | O |
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| I wish I were pure from low earthly ambitions | E |
| As quiet and calm and contented as you | Q |
| I wish my heart held such a well spring of music | R |
| That I were as gentle and trustful and true | Q |
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| Little dove you were worthy to carry the olive | O |
| Over the waters to Noah's host | S |
| To die for the mother of Christ in the Temple | N |
| To be chosen for shrine of the Holy Ghost | S |
| And now you have only to live and be happy | I |
| To rear up your young ones and teach them to coo | Q |
| O sing on and teach me the heavenly lessons | E |
| To be faithful and worthy of God's work too | Q |
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| Teach me so humbly to take what He gives me | I |
| The manifold duties the great and the small | T |
| Teach me so simply to do what He bids me | I |
| Loving and trustful and thankful for all | T |
Ada Cambridge
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