The Phoebe-bird (a Reply) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEDDAAFFGGHHII| Yes I was wrong about the phoebe bird | A |
| Two songs it has and both of them I've heard | A |
| I did not know those strains of joy and sorrow | B |
| Came from one throat or that each note could borrow | B |
| Strength from the other making one more brave | C |
| And one as sad as rain drops on a grave | C |
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| But thus it is Two songs have men and maidens | D |
| One is for hey day one is sorrow's cadence | E |
| Our voices vary with the changing seasons | D |
| Of life's long year for deep and natural reasons | D |
| Therefore despair not Think not you have altered | A |
| If at some time the gayer note has faltered | A |
| We are as God has made us Gladness pain | F |
| Delight and death and moods of bliss or bane | F |
| With love and hate or good and evil all | G |
| At separate times in separate accents call | G |
| Yet 't is the same heart throb within the breast | H |
| That gives an impulse to our worst and best | H |
| I doubt not when our earthly cries are ended | I |
| The Listener finds them in one music blended | I |
George Parsons Lathrop
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