The Humming Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM| Green wing and ruby throat | A |
| What shining spell what exquisite sorcery | B |
| Lured you to float | A |
| And fight with bees round this one flowering tree | B |
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| Petulant imps of light | C |
| What whisper or gleam or elfin wild perfumes | D |
| Thrilled through the night | C |
| And drew you to this hive of rosy bloom | E |
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| One tree and one alone | F |
| Of all that load this magic air with spice | G |
| Claims for its own | F |
| Your brave migration out of Paradise | G |
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| Claims you and guides you too | H |
| Three thousand miles across the summer's waste | I |
| Of blooms ye knew | H |
| Less finely fit for your ethereal taste | I |
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| To poets' youthful hearts | J |
| Even so the quivering April thoughts will fly | K |
| Those irised darts | J |
| Those winged and tiny denizens of the sky | K |
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| Through beaks as needle fine | L |
| They suck a redder honey than bees know | M |
| Unearthly wine | L |
| Sleeps in this bloom and when it falls they go | M |
Alfred Noyes
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