Consider The Ravens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF GGHHIIJKLMNN OOEEPP QQRRSSTT UUVVWWXXDD YYZZA2A2 B2C2C2| Lord according to thy words | A |
| I have considered thy birds | A |
| And I find their life good | B |
| And better the better understood | B |
| Sowing neither corn nor wheat | C |
| They have all that they can eat | C |
| Reaping no more than they sow | D |
| They have more than they could stow | E |
| Having neither barn nor store | F |
| Hungry again they eat more | F |
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| Considering I see too that they | G |
| Have a busy life and plenty of play | G |
| In the earth they dig their bills deep | H |
| And work well though they do not heap | H |
| Then to play in the air they are not loath | I |
| And their nests between are better than both | I |
| But this is when there blow no storms | J |
| When berries are plenty in winter and worms | K |
| When feathers are rife with oil enough | L |
| To keep the cold out and send the rain off | M |
| If there come indeed a long hard frost | N |
| Then it looks as thy birds were lost | N |
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| But I consider further and find | O |
| A hungry bird has a free mind | O |
| He is hungry to day not to morrow | E |
| Steals no comfort no grief doth borrow | E |
| This moment is his thy will hath said it | P |
| The next is nothing till thou hast made it | P |
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| Thy bird has pain but has no fear | Q |
| Which is the worst of any gear | Q |
| When cold and hunger and harm betide him | R |
| He does not take them and stuff inside him | R |
| Content with the day's ill he has got | S |
| He waits just nor haggles with his lot | S |
| Neither jumbles God's will | T |
| With driblets from his own still | T |
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| But next I see in my endeavour | U |
| Thy birds here do not live for ever | U |
| That cold or hunger sickness or age | V |
| Finishes their earthly stage | V |
| The rooks drop in cold nights | W |
| Leaving all their wrongs and rights | W |
| Birds lie here and birds lie there | X |
| With their feathers all astare | X |
| And in thy own sermon thou | D |
| That the sparrow falls dost allow | D |
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| It shall not cause me any alarm | Y |
| For neither so comes the bird to harm | Y |
| Seeing our father thou hast said | Z |
| Is by the sparrow's dying bed | Z |
| Therefore it is a blessed place | A2 |
| And the sparrow in high grace | A2 |
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| It cometh therefore to this Lord | B2 |
| I have considered thy word | C2 |
| And henceforth will be thy bird | C2 |
George Macdonald
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