The Retrospective Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGH| His caw is a cackle his eye is dim | A |
| And he mopes all day on the lowest limb | A |
| Not a word says he but he snaps his bill | B |
| And twitches his palsied head as a quill | B |
| The ultimate plume of his pride and hope | C |
| Quits his now featherless nose of the Pope | C |
| Leaving that eminence brown and bare | D |
| Exposed to the Prince of the Power of the Air | D |
| And he sits and he thinks 'I'm an old old man | E |
| Mateless and chickless the last of my clan | E |
| But I'd give the half of the days gone by | F |
| To perch once more on the branches high | F |
| And hear my great grand daddy's comical croaks | G |
| In authorized versions of Bulletin jokes ' | H |
Ambrose Bierce
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