The Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE ABFCGH IJKLLL MNMO GPPG QRSR TT| Hither thou com'st the busy wind all night | A |
| Blew through thy lodging where thy own warm wing | B |
| Thy pillow was Many a sullen storm | C |
| For which coarse man seems much the fitter born | D |
| Rained on thy bed | E |
| And harmless head | E |
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| And now as fresh and cheerful as the light | A |
| Thy little heart in early hymns doth sing | B |
| Unto that Providence whose unseen arm | F |
| Curbed them and clothed thee well and warm | C |
| All things that be praise Him and had | G |
| Their lesson taught them when first made | H |
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| So hills and valleys into singing break | I |
| And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue | J |
| While active winds and streams both run and speak | K |
| Yet stones are deep in admiration | L |
| Thus praise and prayer here beneath the sun | L |
| Make lesser mornings when the great are done | L |
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| For each inclosed spirit is a star | M |
| Enlight'ning his own little sphere | N |
| Whose light though fetched and borrowed from far | M |
| Both mornings makes and evenings there | O |
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| But as these birds of light make a land glad | G |
| Chirping their solemn matins on each tree | P |
| So in the shades of night some dark fowls be | P |
| Whose heavy notes make all that hear them sad | G |
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| The turtle then in palm trees mourns | Q |
| While owls and satyrs howl | R |
| The pleasant land to brimstone turns | S |
| And all her streams grow foul | R |
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| Brightness and mirth and love and faith all fly | T |
| Till the day spring breaks forth again from high | T |
Henry Vaughan
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