Bluebird's Greeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACAC CDCD EEFEEEEE EGHHGIJIJG KLKMNMMM EMMMGGM CCMCCCCEEEE MMCCEEMMOver the mossy walls | A |
Above the slumbering fields | B |
Where yet the ground no fruitage yields | B |
Save as the sunlight falls | A |
In dreams of harvest yellow | C |
What voice remembered calls | A |
So bubbling fresh so soft and mellow | C |
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A darting azure feathered arrow | C |
From some lithe sapling's bow curve fleet | D |
The bluebird springing light and narrow | C |
Sings in flight with gurglings sweet | D |
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Out of the South I wing | E |
Blown on the breath of Spring | E |
The little faltering song | F |
That in my beak I bring | E |
Some maiden shall catch and sing | E |
Filling it with the longing | E |
And the blithe unfettered thronging | E |
Of her spirit's blossoming | E |
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Warbling along | E |
In the sunny weather | G |
Float my notes | H |
Through the sunny motes | H |
Falling light as a feather | G |
Flit flit o'er the fertile land | I |
'Mid hovering insects' hums | J |
Fall into the sower's hand | I |
Then when his harvest comes | J |
The seed and the song shall have flowered together | G |
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From the Coosa and Altamaha | K |
With a thought of the dim blue Gulf | L |
From the Roanoke and Kanawha | K |
From the musical Southern rivers | M |
O'er the land where the fierce war wolf | N |
Lies slain and buried in flowers | M |
I come to your chill sad hours | M |
And the woods where the sunlight shivers | M |
I come like an echo 'Awake ' | - |
I answer the sky and the lake | E |
And the clear cool color that quivers | M |
In all your azure rills | M |
I come to your wan bleak hills | M |
For a greeting that rises dearer | G |
To homely hearts draws me nearer | G |
Than the warmth of the rice fields or wealth of the ranches | M |
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I will charm away your sorrow | C |
For I sing of the dewy morrow | C |
My melody sways like the branches | M |
My light feet set astir | C |
I bring to the old as I hover | C |
The days and the joys that were | C |
And hope to the waiting lover | C |
Then take my note and sing | E |
Filling it with the longing | E |
And the blithe unfettered thronging | E |
Of your spirit's blossoming | E |
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Not long that music lingers | M |
Like the breath of forgotten singers | M |
It flies or like the March cloud's shadow | C |
That sweeps with its wing the faded meadow | C |
Not long And yet thy fleeting | E |
Thy tender flute toned greeting | E |
O bluebird wakes an answer that remains | M |
The purest chord in all the year's refrains | M |
George Parsons Lathrop
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