Foolish Bobolink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFDD GAGADD HIHIDD IFIFDD JKJKDD CLLMNM| What a silly bobolink | A |
| Down in the meadow grasses | B |
| What can the noisy fellow think | A |
| When to everyone who passes | B |
| He calls out cheerily | C |
| Here here is my nest See see | D |
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| He could hide the summer through | E |
| In the thick sweet smelling clover | F |
| Nor could anyone from dawn to dew | E |
| His little house discover | F |
| Did he not make so free | D |
| With the secret Here see see | D |
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| Little Ted has ears and eyes | G |
| And how can he keep from knowing | A |
| Just where the cosy treasure lies | G |
| When bobolink coming going | A |
| Shouts plain as plain can be | D |
| Here here is a nest See see | D |
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| And Teddy would like to creep | H |
| Tip toe across the meadow | I |
| And for just one minute stoop and peep | H |
| Under the clover shadow | I |
| He would do no harm not he | D |
| But would only see see see | D |
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| And what would he find below | I |
| The sheltering grass you wonder | F |
| Why a nest of course and an egg or so | I |
| A mother's dark wings under | F |
| But bobolink he would flee | D |
| In a fright A boy see see | D |
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| So Teddy whose heart is kind | J |
| Though he longs to venture near him | K |
| Sighs to himself Ah never mind | J |
| And listens glad to hear him | K |
| Shouting in tireless glee | D |
| Here here is my nest See see | D |
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| Green gravel Green gravel | C |
| The grass is so green | L |
| The fairest young maiden that ever was seen | L |
| Oh Mary oh Mary your true love is dead | M |
| He's sent you a green bough | N |
| To tie round your head | M |
Clara Doty Bates
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