Suggested By The Cover Of A Volume Of Keats's Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLFMD NOFPI QRBAMSTOF| Wild little bird who chose thee for a sign | A |
| To put upon the cover of this book | B |
| Who heard thee singing in the distance dim | C |
| The vague far greenness of the enshrouding wood | D |
| When the damp freshness of the morning earth | E |
| Was full of pungent sweetness and thy song | F |
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| Who followed over moss and twisted roots | G |
| And pushed through the wet leaves of trailing vines | H |
| Where slanting sunbeams gleamed uncertainly | I |
| While ever clearer came the dropping notes | J |
| Until at last two widening trunks disclosed | K |
| Thee singing on a spray of branching beech | L |
| Hidden then seen and always that same song | F |
| Of joyful sweetness rapture incarnate | M |
| Filled the hushed rustling stillness of the wood | D |
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| We do not know what bird thou art Perhaps | N |
| That fairy bird fabled in island tale | O |
| Who never sings but once and then his song | F |
| Is of such fearful beauty that he dies | P |
| From sheer exuberance of melody | I |
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| For this they took thee little bird for this | Q |
| They captured thee tilting among the leaves | R |
| And stamped thee for a symbol on this book | B |
| For it contains a song surpassing thine | A |
| Richer more sweet more poignant And the poet | M |
| Who felt this burning beauty and whose heart | S |
| Was full of loveliest things sang all he knew | T |
| A little while and then he died too frail | O |
| To bear this untamed passionate burst of song | F |
Amy Lowell
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