Of The Cuckoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AA CCAA DDEE AA CF GGAA| Thou booby say'st thou nothing but cuckoo | A |
| The robin and the wren can thee outdo | A |
| They to us play thor ugh their little throats | B |
| Not one but sundry pretty tuneful notes | B |
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| But thou hast fellows some like thee can do | A |
| Little but suck our eggs and sing cuckoo | A |
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| Thy notes do not first welcome in our spring | C |
| Not dost thou its first tokens to us bring | C |
| Birds less than thee by far like prophets do | A |
| Tell us 'tis coming though not by cuckoo | A |
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| Nor dost thou summer have away with thee | D |
| Though thou a yawling bawling cuckoo be | D |
| When thou dost cease among us to appear | E |
| Then doth our harvest bravely crown our year | E |
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| But thou hast fellows some like thee can do | A |
| Little but suck our eggs and sing cuckoo | A |
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| Since cuckoos forward not our early spring | C |
| Nor help with notes to bring our harvest in | F |
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| And since while here she only makes a noise | G |
| So pleasing unto none as girls and boys | G |
| The formalist we may compare her to | A |
| For he doth suck our eggs and sing cuckoo | A |
John Bunyan
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