Alzuna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FDFDCEAE| The forest of Alzuna hides a pool | A |
| Beside that pool a shadowy tree up towers | B |
| High on that tree a bough most beautiful | C |
| Bends with the fragrant burden of its flowers | B |
| Among those flowers a nest is buried deep | D |
| Warm in that nest there lies a freckled shell | E |
| Packed in that shell a bird is fast asleep | D |
| This is the incantation and the spell | E |
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| For when the north wind blows the bird will cry | F |
| Warm in my freckled shell I lie asleep | D |
| The freckled shell is in the nest on high | F |
| The nest among the flowers is buried deep | D |
| The flowers are on a bough most beautiful | C |
| The bough is on a tree no axe can fell | E |
| The sky is at its feet in yonder pool | A |
| This is the incantation and the spell | E |
Alfred Noyes
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