The Sparrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HDHD DBDB IJIJ| O Lord I cannot but believe | A |
| The birds do sing thy praises then when they sing to one another | B |
| And they are lying seed sown land when the winter makes them grieve | A |
| Their little bosoms breeding songs for the summer to unsmother | B |
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| If thou hadst finished me O Lord | C |
| Nor left out of me part of that great gift that goes to singing | D |
| I sure had known the meaning high of the songster's praising word | E |
| Had known upon what thoughts of thee his pearly talk he was stringing | D |
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| I should have read the wisdom hid | F |
| In the storm inspired melody of thy thrush's bosom solemn | G |
| I should not then have understood what thy free spirit did | F |
| To make the lark soprano mount like to a geyser column | G |
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| I think I almost understand | H |
| Thy owl his muffled swiftness moon round eyes and intoned hooting | D |
| I think I could take up the part of a night owl in the land | H |
| With yellow moon and starry things day dreamers all confuting | D |
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| But 'mong thy creatures that do sing | D |
| Perhaps of all I likest am to the housetop haunting sparrow | B |
| That flies brief sudden flights upon a dumpy fluttering wing | D |
| And chirps thy praises from a throat that's very short and narrow | B |
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| But if thy sparrow praise thee well | I |
| By singing well thy song nor letting noisy traffic quell it | J |
| It may be that in some remote and leafy heavenly dell | I |
| He may with a trumpet throat awake and a trumpet song to swell it | J |
George Macdonald
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