The Two Blackbirds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNON PQRQ STSU KLKL AVAV TWTW XYXY| A blackbird in a wicker cage | A |
| That hung and swung 'mid fruits and flowers | B |
| Had learnt the song charm to assuage | A |
| The drearness of its wingless hours | B |
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| And ever when the song was heard | C |
| From trees that shade the grassy plot | D |
| Warbled another glossy bird | C |
| Whose mate not long ago was shot | D |
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| Strange anguish in that creature's breast | E |
| Unwept like human grief unsaid | F |
| Has quickened in its lonely nest | E |
| A living impulse from the dead | F |
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| Not to console its own wild smart | G |
| But with a kindling instinct strong | H |
| The novel feeling of its heart | G |
| Beats for the captive bird of song | H |
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| And when those mellow notes are still | I |
| It hops from off its choral perch | J |
| O'er path and sward with busy bill | I |
| All grateful gifts to peck and search | J |
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| Store of ouzel dainties choice | K |
| To those white swinging bars it brings | L |
| And with a low consoling voice | K |
| It talks between its fluttering wings | L |
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| Deeply in their bitter grief | M |
| Those sufferers reciprocate | N |
| The one sings for its woodland life | O |
| The other for its murdered mate | N |
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| But deeper doth the secret prove | P |
| Uniting those sad creatures so | Q |
| Humanity's great link of love | R |
| The common sympathy of woe | Q |
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| Well divined from day to day | S |
| Is the swift speech between them twain | T |
| For when the bird is scared away | S |
| The captive bursts to song again | U |
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| Yet daily with its flattering voice | K |
| Talking amid its fluttering wings | L |
| Store of ouzel dainties choice | K |
| With busy bill the poor bird brings | L |
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| And shall I say till weak with age | A |
| Down from its drowsy branch it drops | V |
| It will not leave that captive cage | A |
| Nor cease those busy searching hops | V |
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| Ah no the moral will not strain | T |
| Another sense will make it range | W |
| Another mate will soothe its pain | T |
| Another season work a change | W |
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| But thro' the live long summer tried | X |
| A pure devotion we may see | Y |
| The ebb and flow of Nature's tide | X |
| A self forgetful sympathy | Y |
George Meredith
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