The Birds Begun At Four O'clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB BCDE BBBB BBFB BGBB BBHIA | |
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The Birds begun at Four o'clock mdash | B |
Their period for Dawn mdash | B |
A Music numerous as space mdash | B |
But neighboring as Noon mdash | B |
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I could not count their Force mdash | B |
Their Voices did expend | C |
As Brook by Brook bestows itself | D |
To multiply the Pond | E |
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Their Witnesses were not mdash | B |
Except occasional man mdash | B |
In homely industry arrayed mdash | B |
To overtake the Morn mdash | B |
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Nor was it for applause mdash | B |
That I could ascertain mdash | B |
But independent Ecstasy | F |
Of Deity and Men mdash | B |
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By Six the Flood had done mdash | B |
No Tumult there had been | G |
Of Dressing or Departure mdash | B |
And yet the Band was gone mdash | B |
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The Sun engrossed the East mdash | B |
The Day controlled the World mdash | B |
The Miracle that introduced | H |
Forgotten as fulfilled | I |
Emily Dickinson
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