O Jay! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDCCCDEFEFGEFG HIJKJKFF LJJMNNA LLOOLPQLRCSSPRTTUU VVV WOOWAA| O jay | A |
| Blue jay | A |
| What are you trying to say | A |
| I remember in the spring | B |
| You pretended you could sing | B |
| But your voice is now still queerer | C |
| And as yet you've come no nearer | C |
| To a song | D |
| In fact to sum the matter | C |
| I never heard a flatter | C |
| Failure than your doleful clatter | C |
| Don't you think it's wrong | D |
| It was sweet to hear your note | E |
| I'll not deny | F |
| When April set pale clouds afloat | E |
| O'er the blue tides of sky | F |
| And 'mid the wind's triumphant drums | G |
| You in your white and azure coat | E |
| A herald proud came forth to cry | F |
| The royal summer comes | G |
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| But now that autumn's here | H |
| And the leaves curl up in sheer | I |
| Disgust | J |
| And the cold rains fringe the pine | K |
| You really must | J |
| Stop that supercilious whine | K |
| Or you'll be shot by some mephitic | F |
| Angry critic | F |
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| You don't fulfill your early promise | L |
| You're not the smartest | J |
| Kind of artist | J |
| Any more than poor Blind Tom is | M |
| Yet somehow still | N |
| There's meaning in your screaming bill | N |
| What are you trying to say | A |
| - | |
| Sometimes your piping is delicious | L |
| And then again it's simply vicious | L |
| Though on the whole the varying jangle | O |
| Weaves round me an entrancing tangle | O |
| Of memories grave or joyous | L |
| Things to weep or laugh at | P |
| Love that lived at a hint or | Q |
| Days so sweet they'd cloy us | L |
| Nights I have spent with friends | R |
| Glistening groves of winter | C |
| And the sound of vanished feet | S |
| That walked by the ripening wheat | S |
| With other things Not the half that | P |
| Your cry familiar blends | R |
| Can I name for it is mostly | T |
| Very ghostly | T |
| Such mixed up things your voice recalls | U |
| With its peculiar quirks and falls | U |
| - | |
| Possibly then your meaning plain | V |
| Is that your harsh and broken strain | V |
| Tallies best with a world of pain | V |
| - | |
| Well I'll admit | W |
| There's merit in a voice that's truthful | O |
| Yours is not honey sweet nor youthful | O |
| But querulously fit | W |
| And if we cannot sing we'll say | A |
| Something to the purpose jay | A |
George Parsons Lathrop
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