The Wounded Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIG JKLMNLOPHQRSA ATUDLVLHVHI| In the wide bed | A |
| Under the freen embroidered quilt | B |
| With flowers and leaves always in soft motion | C |
| She is like a wounded bird resting on a pool | D |
| - | |
| The hunter threw his dart | E |
| And hit her breast | F |
| Hit her but did not kill | G |
| O my wings lift me lift me | H |
| I am not dreadfully hurt | I |
| Down she dropped and was still | G |
| - | |
| Kind people come to the edge of the pool with baskets | J |
| Of course what the poor bird wants is plenty of food | K |
| Their bags and pockets are crammed almost to bursting | L |
| With dinner scrapings and scraps from the servants' | M |
| lunch | N |
| Oh how pleased they are to be really giving | L |
| In the past you know you know you were always so | O |
| fly away | P |
| So seldom came to the window sill so rarely | H |
| Shared the delicious crumbs thrown into the yard | Q |
| Here is a delicate fragment and her a tit bit | R |
| As good as new And here's a morsel of relish | S |
| And cake and bread and bread and bread and bread | A |
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| At night in the wide bed | A |
| With the leaves and flowers | T |
| Gently weaving in the darkness | U |
| She is like a wounded bird at rest on a pool | D |
| Timidly timidly she lifts her head from her wing | L |
| In the sky there are two stars | V |
| Floating shining | L |
| O waters do not cover me | H |
| I would look long and long at those beautiful stars | V |
| O my wings lift me lift me | H |
| I am not so dreadfully hurt | I |
Katherine Mansfield
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