When I Was A Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGHIJCKLMNHOAP QQI| I climbed up the karaka tree | A |
| Into a nest all made of leaves | B |
| But soft as feathers | C |
| I made up a song that went on singing all by itself | D |
| And hadn't any words but got sad at the end | E |
| There were daisies in the grass under the tree | A |
| I said just to try them | F |
| I'll bite off your heads and give them to my little | G |
| children to eat | H |
| But they didn't believe I was a bird | I |
| They stayed quite open | J |
| The sky was like a blue nest with white feathers | C |
| And the sun was the mother bird keeping it warm | K |
| That's what my song said though it hadn't any words | L |
| Little Brother came up the patch wheeling his barrow | M |
| I made my dress into wings and kept very quiet | N |
| Then when he was quite near I said Sweet sweet | H |
| For a moment he looked quite startled | O |
| Then he said Pooh you're not a bird I can see | A |
| your legs | P |
| But the daisies didn't really matter | Q |
| And Little Brother didn't really matter | Q |
| I felt just like a bird | I |
Katherine Mansfield
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