The Humming-bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEFEFGCGGCHIH IJJHJHI KLKLMMNNOO PQPQHHHHPQ| What a boom boom | A |
| Sounds among the honeysuckles | B |
| Saying 'Room room | A |
| Hold your breath and mind your knuckles | B |
| And a fairy birdling bright | C |
| Flits like a living dart of light | C |
| With his tiny whirlwind wings | D |
| Flies and rests and sings | D |
| All his soul one flash one quiver | E |
| Down each cup | F |
| He thrusts his long beak with a shiver | E |
| Drinks the sweetness up | F |
| Takes the best of earth and goes | G |
| Daring sprite | C |
| Back to his heaven no mortal knows | G |
| A heaven as sweet as the heart of a rose | G |
| Shut at night | C |
| Out upon the trackless highway | H |
| Now I go | I |
| Beaten road and trail and byway | H |
| Far below | I |
| I have shaken from my feet | J |
| Mire of earth dust of the street | J |
| Now the birds' way shall be my way | H |
| Winds of heaven shall be my seat | J |
| Out upon the untrodden highway | H |
| Now I go | I |
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| Patterned parks and bold skyscrapers | K |
| Of the town | L |
| Close packed houses plumed with vapors | K |
| Dwindle down | L |
| In a world that slants and tips | M |
| And the little creeping ships | M |
| Skim the sea And people crawling | N |
| In their cage earth bound appalling | N |
| Crowd and cross and would be free | O |
| Look at me | O |
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| I shall over ride the mountain | P |
| Through the blue | Q |
| And the cloud shall be my fountain | P |
| Fringed with dew | Q |
| Towers and tree tops swing and sway | H |
| Broidered meadows glide away | H |
| Now I tread the air's own highway | H |
| Now the eagle's way is my way | H |
| I am off to meet the mountain | P |
| Where are you | Q |
Harriet Monroe
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