The Poet And The Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD E E FGFG| Said a people to a poet ' Go out from among us straightway | A |
| While we are thinking earthly things thou singest of divine | B |
| There's a little fair brown nightingale who sitting in the gateways | C |
| Makes fitter music to our ears than any song of thine ' | D |
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| The poet went out weeping the nightingale ceased chanting | E |
| 'Now wherefore O thou nightingale is all thy sweetness done ' | - |
| I cannot sing my earthly things the heavenly poet wanting | E |
| Whose highest harmony includes the lowest under sun ' | - |
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| The poet went out weeping and died abroad bereft there | F |
| The bird flew to his grave and died amid a thousand wails | G |
| And when I last came by the place I swear the music left there | F |
| Was only of the poet's song and not the nightingale's | G |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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