The Satin Bower-bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB ADADEEED AFAFGGGF AHAHIIIH| Spare a bloom of blue lady | A |
| To adorn a bower | B |
| A violet will do lady | A |
| Any azure flower | B |
| Since we hold a dance to day | C |
| We would make our ball room gay | C |
| Where the scented grasses sway | C |
| And the tall trees tower | B |
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| Beautiful but shy lady | A |
| Yesterday we came | D |
| Dropping from the sky lady | A |
| Flecks of golden flame | D |
| Golden flame and royal blue | E |
| We have come to beg of you | E |
| Any scrap of heaven's hue | E |
| For our dancing game | D |
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| Spare us but a leaf lady | A |
| If our suit be spurned | F |
| We shall play the thief lady | A |
| When your back is turned | F |
| Ravishing your garden plot | G |
| Of the choicest you have got | G |
| Pansy or forget me not | G |
| Counting it well earned | F |
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| Then if some rare chance lady | A |
| Later should befall | H |
| And you gain a glance lady | A |
| At our dancing hall | H |
| You will find your blossoms there | I |
| 'Mid our decorations where | I |
| With a proud patrician air | I |
| We hold the Bushland Ball | H |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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