The Happy Bird-s Nest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB CBCB CBCB DBDB| When on my cottage falls the placid shower | A |
| When ev'ning calls the labourer home to rest | B |
| When glad the bee deserts the humid flower | A |
| O then the bird assumes her peaceful nest | B |
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| When sable shadows grow unshapely tall | C |
| And Sol's resplendent wheel descends the west | B |
| The knell of respiration tolls for all | C |
| And Hesper smiles upon the linnet's nest | B |
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| When o'er the mountain bounds the fair gazell | C |
| The night bird tells her day departing jest | B |
| She gladly leaves her melancholy dell | C |
| And spreads her pinions o'er the linnet's nest | B |
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| Then harmless Dian spreads her lucid sail | C |
| And glides through ether with her silver crest | B |
| Bidding the watchful bird still pour her tale | C |
| And cheer the happy linnet on her nest | B |
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| Thus may some guardian angel bear her light | D |
| And o'er thy tomb departed genius rest | B |
| Whilst thou shalt take thy long eternal flight | D |
| And leave some faithful bird to guard thy nest | B |
George Moses Horton
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