The Blackbird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFE EGHE IJJI EKKE| O blackbird sing me something well | A |
| While all the neighbors shoot thee round | B |
| I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground | B |
| Where thou mayst warble eat and dwell | A |
| The espaliers and the standards all | C |
| Are thine the range of lawn and park | D |
| The unnetted black hearts ripen dark | D |
| All thine against the garden wall | C |
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| Yet tho' I spared thee all the spring | E |
| Thy sole delight is sitting still | F |
| With that gold dagger of thy bill | F |
| To fret the summer jenneting | E |
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| A golden bill ths silver tongue | E |
| Cold February loved is dry | G |
| Plenty corrupts the melody | H |
| That made thee famous once when young | E |
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| And in the sultry garden squares | I |
| Now thy flute notes are changed to coarse | J |
| I hear thee not at all or hoarse | J |
| As when a hawker hawks his wares | I |
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| Take warning he that will not sing | E |
| While yon sun prospers in the blue | K |
| Shall sing for want ere leaves are new | K |
| Caught in the frozen palms of Spring | E |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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