Care Of Birds For Their Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIJCKLMNMILM OOGLLPQOGROSTOGLLGOO U| As thus the patient dam assiduous sits | A |
| Not to be tempted from her tender task | B |
| Or by sharp hunger or by smooth delight | C |
| Tho' the whole loosen'd spring around her blows | D |
| Her sympathising partner takes his stand | E |
| High on th' opponent bank and ceaseless sings | F |
| The tedious time away or else supplies | G |
| Her place a moment while she sudden flits | G |
| To pick the scanty meal Th' appointed time | H |
| With pious toil fulfill'd the callow young | I |
| Warm'd and expanded into perfect life | J |
| Their brittle bondage break and come to light | C |
| A helpless family demanding food | K |
| With constant clamour O what passions then | L |
| What melting sentiments of kindly care | M |
| On the new parents seize Away they fly | N |
| Affectionate and undesiring bear | M |
| The more delicious morsel to their young | I |
| Which equally distributed again | L |
| The search begins Even so a gentle pair | M |
| By fortune sunk but form'd of gen'rous mould | O |
| And charm'd with cares beyond the vulgar breat | O |
| In some lone cot amid the distant woods | G |
| Sustain'd alone by providential Heav'n | L |
| Oft as they weeping eye their infant train | L |
| Check their own appetites and give them all | P |
| Nor toil alone they scorn exalting love | Q |
| By the great Father of the spring inspired | O |
| Gives instant courage to the fearful race | G |
| And to the simple art With stealthy wing | R |
| Should some rude foot their woody haunts molest | O |
| Amid a neighbouring bush they silent drop | S |
| And whirring thence as if alarmed deceive | T |
| The unfeeling shool boy Hence around the head | O |
| Of wandering swain the white winged plover wheels | G |
| Her sounding flight and then directly on | L |
| In long excursion skims the level lawn | L |
| To tempt him from her nest The wild duck hence | G |
| O'er the rough moss and o'er the trackless waste | O |
| The heath hen flutters pious fraud to lead | O |
| The hot pursuing spaniel far astray | U |
James Thomson
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