Lay Of The Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGH AAII JJKK LLMM AANN| Let others sing their favourite lay | A |
| From early morn till close of day | A |
| More useful themes engage our pen | B |
| We sing the lay of our good hen | B |
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| For she doth lay each morn an egg | C |
| And it is full and large and big | D |
| Abroad she doth never travel | E |
| Happy she when scratching gravel | E |
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| And she loud cackles songs of praise | F |
| Every morn when e'er she lays | F |
| Proud she is when she finds pickings | G |
| For to feed her brood of chickens | H |
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| It greatly puzzled her one day | A |
| When she found white nest egg of clay | A |
| She knew some one did trick play her | I |
| For she was no brick layer | I |
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| Vain and stately male bird stalks | J |
| Leading his hens along the walks | J |
| Proudly each feather in his tail | K |
| Makes rival roosters for to quail | K |
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| Our muse now soars on feathery wing | L |
| And cheerful it doth hail the spring | L |
| Bringing the sunshine and showers | M |
| Green grass and buds and leafy bowers | M |
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| So pleasant is the month of May | A |
| When bushes shoot out blooming spray | A |
| 'Ere spring we're tired of winter's white | N |
| Spring's varied colours do delight | N |
James Mcintyre
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