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