Love And Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGD HHBIGD JJKKDD LLBBCD MMNNGD OPQQCD| The linnet had flown from its cage away | A |
| And flitted and sang in the light of day | A |
| Had flown from the lady who loved it well | B |
| In Liberty's freer air to dwell | B |
| Alas poor bird it was soon to prove | C |
| Sweeter than Liberty is Love | D |
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| When night came on it had ceased to sing | E |
| And had hidden its head beneath its wing | E |
| It thought of the warm room left behind | F |
| The shelter from cold and rain and wind | F |
| It could not sleep when to sleep it strove | G |
| Liberty needeth the help of Love | D |
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| The night owls shrieked as they wheeled along | H |
| Bent upon slaughter and rapine and wrong | H |
| There was devilish mirth in their wild halloo | B |
| And the linnet trembled when near they drew | I |
| 'Twas fearful to watch them madly rove | G |
| Drunken with Liberty left of Love | D |
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| When morning broke a grey old crow | J |
| Was pecking some carrion down below | J |
| A poor little lamb half alive half dead | K |
| And the crow at each peck turned up its head | K |
| With a cunning glance at the linnet above | D |
| What a demon is Liberty left of Love | D |
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| Then an eagle hovered far up in the sky | L |
| And the linnet trembled but could not fly | L |
| With a swoop to the earth the eagle fell | B |
| And rose up anon with a savage yell | B |
| The birds in the woodlands dared not move | C |
| What a despot is Liberty left of Love | D |
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| By and bye there arrived with chattering loud | M |
| Chaffinch and sparrow and finch in a cloud | M |
| Round and around in their fierce attack | N |
| They plucked the feathers from breast and back | N |
| And the poor little linnet all vainly strove | G |
| Fighting with Liberty left of Love | D |
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| Alas it said with a cry of pain | O |
| Carry me back to my cage again | P |
| There let me dwell in peaceful ease | Q |
| Piping whatever songs I please | Q |
| Here if I stay my death shall prove | C |
| Liberty dieth left of Love | D |
Horace Smith
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