Bird Or Beast? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJKJ LMNM| Did any bird come flying | A |
| After Adam and Eve | B |
| When the door was shut against them | C |
| And they sat down to grieve | B |
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| I think not Eve's peacock | D |
| Splendid to see | E |
| And I think not Adam's eagle | F |
| But a dove may be | E |
| - | |
| Did any beast come pushing | A |
| Through the thorny hedge | G |
| Into the thorny thistly world | H |
| Out from Eden's edge | G |
| - | |
| I think not a lion | I |
| Though his strength is such | J |
| But an innocent loving lamb | K |
| May have done as much | J |
| - | |
| If the dove preached from her bough | L |
| and the lamb from his sod | M |
| The lamb and dove | N |
| Were preachers sent from God | M |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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