Baby-bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEAFGFHBHBAIGI JKIKALMNOAOA| Baby bird baby bird | A |
| Ne'er a song on earth | B |
| May be heard may be heard | A |
| Rich as yours in mirth | B |
| All your flickering fingers | C |
| All your twinkling toes | D |
| Play like light that lingers | C |
| Till the clear song close | E |
| Baby bird baby bird | A |
| Your grave majestic eyes | F |
| Like a bird's warbled words | G |
| Speak and sorrow dies | F |
| Sorrow dies for love's sake | H |
| Love grows one with mirth | B |
| Even for one white dove's sake | H |
| Born a babe on earth | B |
| Baby bird baby bird | A |
| Chirping loud and long | I |
| Other birds hush their words | G |
| Hearkening toward your song | I |
| Sweet as spring though it ring | J |
| Full of love's own lures | K |
| Weak and wrong sounds their song | I |
| Singing after yours | K |
| Baby bird baby bird | A |
| The happy heart that hears | L |
| Seems to win back within | M |
| Heaven and cast out fears | N |
| Earth and sun seem as one | O |
| Sweet light and one sweet word | A |
| Known of none here but one | O |
| Known of one sweet bird | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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