The Rook And The Sparrows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEAAFFGGHHIIJJ KLMMNNOOPP| A little boy with crumbs of bread | A |
| Many a hungry sparrow fed | A |
| It was a child of little sense | B |
| Who this kind bounty did dispense | B |
| For suddenly it was withdrawn | C |
| And all the birds were left forlorn | D |
| In a hard time of frost and snow | E |
| Not knowing where for food to go | E |
| He would no longer give them bread | A |
| Because he had observed he said | A |
| That sometimes to the window came | F |
| A great black bird a rook by name | F |
| And took away a small bird's share | G |
| So foolish Henry did not care | G |
| What became of the great rook | H |
| That from the little sparrows took | H |
| Now and then as 'twere by stealth | I |
| A part of their abundant wealth | I |
| Nor ever more would feed his sparrows | J |
| Thus ignorance a kind heart narrows | J |
| I wish I had been there I would | K |
| Have told the child rooks live by food | L |
| In the same way that sparrows do | M |
| I also would have told him too | M |
| Birds act by instinct and ne'er can | N |
| Attain the rectitude of man | N |
| Nay that even when distress | O |
| Does on poor human nature press | O |
| We need not be too strict in seeing | P |
| The failings of a fellow being | P |
Charles Lamb
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