The Robin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EIJ KLKL MNM| MY old Welsh neighbor over the way | A |
| Crept slowly out in the sun of spring | B |
| Pushed from her ears the locks of gray | A |
| And listened to hear the robin sing | B |
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| Her grandson playing at marbles stopped | C |
| And cruel in sport as boys will be | D |
| Tossed a stone at the bird who hopped | C |
| From bough to bough in the apple tree | D |
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| 'Nay ' said the grandmother 'have you not heard | E |
| My poor bad boy of the fiery pit | F |
| And how drop by drop this merciful bird | E |
| Carries the water that quenches it | F |
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| 'He brings cool dew in his little bill | G |
| And lets it fall on the souls of sin | H |
| You can see the mark on his red breast still | G |
| Of fires that scorch as he drops it in | H |
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| 'My poor Bron rhuddyn my breast burned bird | E |
| Singing so sweetly from limb to limb | I |
| Very dear to the heart of Our Lord | J |
| Is he who pities the lost like Him ' | - |
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| 'Amen ' I said to the beautiful myth | K |
| 'Sing bird of God in my heart as well | L |
| Each good thought is a drop wherewith | K |
| To cool and lessen the fires of hell | L |
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| 'Prayers of love like rain drops fall | M |
| Tears of pity are cooling dew | N |
| And dear to the heart of Our Lord are all | M |
| Who suffer like Him in the good they do ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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