Quail's Nest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI| I wandered out one rainy day | A |
| And heard a bird with merry joys | B |
| Cry 'wet my foot' for half the way | A |
| I stood and wondered at the noise | B |
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| When from my foot a bird did flee | C |
| The rain flew bouncing from her breast | D |
| I wondered what the bird could be | C |
| And almost trampled on her nest | D |
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| The nest was full of eggs and round | E |
| I met a shepherd in the vales | F |
| And stood to tell him what I found | E |
| He knew and said it was a quail's | F |
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| For he himself the nest had found | E |
| Among the wheat and on the green | G |
| When going on his daily round | E |
| With eggs as many as fifteen | G |
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| Among the stranger birds they feed | H |
| Their summer flight is short and low | I |
| There's very few know where they breed | H |
| And scarcely any where they go | I |
John Clare
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