The Song-sparrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJLMM ININCC OCOCGG PQPQPP RSRSTT UVUWUU| Glimmers gray the leafless thicket | A |
| Close beside my garden gate | B |
| Where so light from post to picket | A |
| Hops the sparrow blithe sedate | B |
| Who with meekly folded wing | C |
| Comes to sun himself and sing | C |
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| It was there perhaps last year | D |
| That his little house he built | E |
| For he seems to perk and peer | D |
| And to twitter too and tilt | E |
| The bare branches in between | F |
| With a fond familiar mien | F |
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| Once I know there was a nest | G |
| Held there by the sideward thrust | H |
| Of those twigs that touch his breast | G |
| Though 'tis gone now Some rude gust | H |
| Caught it over full of snow | I |
| Bent the bush and robbed it so | I |
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| Thus our highest holds are lost | J |
| By the ruthless winter's wind | K |
| When with swift dismantling frost | J |
| The green woods we dwelt in thinn'd | L |
| Of their leafage grow too cold | M |
| For frail hopes of summer's mold | M |
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| But if we with spring days mellow | I |
| Wake to woeful wrecks of change | N |
| And the sparrow's ritornello | I |
| Scaling still its old sweet range | N |
| Can we do a better thing | C |
| Than with him still build and sing | C |
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| Oh my sparrow thou dost breed | O |
| Thought in me beyond all telling | C |
| Shootest through me sunlight seed | O |
| And fruitful blessing with that welling | C |
| Ripple of ecstatic rest | G |
| Gurgling ever from thy breast | G |
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| And thy breezy carol spurs | P |
| Vital motion in my blood | Q |
| Such as in the sapwood stirs | P |
| Swells and shapes the pointed bud | Q |
| Of the lilac and besets | P |
| The hollows thick with violets | P |
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| Yet I know not any charm | R |
| That can make the fleeting time | S |
| Of thy sylvan faint alarm | R |
| Suit itself to human rhyme | S |
| And my yearning rhythmic word | T |
| Does thee grievous wrong dear bird | T |
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| So however thou hast wrought | U |
| This wild joy on heart and brain | V |
| It is better left untaught | U |
| Take thou up the song again | W |
| There is nothing sad afloat | U |
| On the tide that swells thy throat | U |
George Parsons Lathrop
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