My Merry Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF| I HAD a merry bird | A |
| Who sung a merry song | B |
| And take it on my word | A |
| The day it was not long | B |
| In presence of my bird with its merry merry song | B |
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| Did fortune strew my way | C |
| With crosses which to bear | D |
| Had rendered me a prey | C |
| To sorrow or despair | D |
| My birdie trilled its lay and they vanished into air | D |
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| And thus went things with me | E |
| Till lo with sudden sweep | F |
| Death came across the lea | E |
| And laid my bird asleep | F |
| And ever since that hour I've done nought but sigh and weep | F |
Joseph Skipsey
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