Duval's Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCHIJDK| The parrot screeching flew out into the darkness | A |
| Circled three times above the upturned faces | B |
| With a great whir of brilliant outspread wings | C |
| And then returned to stagger on her finger | D |
| She bowed and smiled eliciting applause | E |
| The property man hated her dirty birds | F |
| But it had taken years yes years to train them | G |
| To shoulder flags strike bells by tweaking strings | C |
| Or climb sedately little flights of stairs | H |
| When they were stubborn she tapped them with a wand | I |
| And her eyes glittered a little under the eyebrows | J |
| The red one flapped and flapped on a swinging wire | D |
| The little white ones winked round yellow eyes | K |
Conrad Aiken
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