The Wren Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD AEFEGG AHIHAA CJKJLL KLLLLL LLKLLL| Early each spring the little wren | A |
| Came scolding to his nest of moss | B |
| We knew him by his peevish cry | C |
| He always sung so very cross | B |
| His quiet little mate would lay | D |
| Her eggs in peace and think all day | D |
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| He was a sturdy little wren | A |
| And when he came in spring we knew | E |
| Or seemed to know the flowers would grow | F |
| To please him where they always grew | E |
| Among the rushes cheerfully | G |
| But not a rush so straight as he | G |
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| All summer long that little wren | A |
| Would chatter like a saucy thing | H |
| And in the bush attack the thrush | I |
| That on the hawthorn perched to sing | H |
| Like many noisy little men | A |
| Lived bragged and fought that little wren | A |
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| There was a thoughtful maid and I | C |
| We used to play along the shore | J |
| Searching for shells and culling flowers | K |
| As at the threshold of life's door | J |
| Through which we had to pass we stood | L |
| Twin types of childish hardihood | L |
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| Year after year we gathered flowers | K |
| And grew apace as children do | L |
| And each returning spring we marked | L |
| The little wrens they never grew | L |
| One over quiet and sedate | L |
| The other a bird reprobate | L |
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| But now the marsh is overflowed | L |
| The rushes rot beneath the sand | L |
| No spring brings back the little wrens | K |
| No children loiter hand in hand | L |
| The maiden rose bud pure and good | L |
| Grown to the flower of womanhood | L |
Charles Sangster
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