The Messenger-bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JFJF KLML CNCN OPOP| Thou art come from the spirits' land thou bird | A |
| Thou art come from the spirits' land | B |
| Through the dark pine grove let thy voice be heard | A |
| And tell of the shadowy band | B |
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| We know that the bowers are green and fair | C |
| In the light of that summer shore | D |
| And we know that the friends we have lost are there | C |
| They are there and they weep no more | D |
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| And we know they have quench'd their fever's thirst | E |
| From the Fountain of Youth ere now | F |
| For there must the stream in its freshness burst | E |
| Which none may find below | G |
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| And we know that they will not be lur'd to earth | H |
| From the land of deathless flowers | I |
| By the feast or the dance or the song of mirth | H |
| Though their hearts were once with ours | I |
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| Though they sat with us by the night fire's blaze | J |
| And bent with us the bow | F |
| And heard the tales of our fathers' days | J |
| Which are told to others now | F |
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| But tell us thou bird of the solemn strain | K |
| Can those who have lov'd forget | L |
| We call and they answer not again | M |
| Do they love do they love us yet | L |
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| Doth the warrior think of his brother there | C |
| And the father of his child | N |
| And the chief of those that were wont to share | C |
| His wanderings through the wild | N |
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| We call them far through the silent night | O |
| And they speak not from cave or hill | P |
| We know thou bird that their land is bright | O |
| But say do they love there still | P |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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