The Brush Sparrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEEFFBBGBG A HHIIJJKKLMBNNBOOB A BOBBPPBBQQRRCCBBSSSG G| I | A |
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| Ere wild haws looming in the glooms | B |
| Build bolted drifts of breezy blooms | B |
| And in the whistling hollow there | C |
| The red bud bends as brown and bare | C |
| As buxom Roxy's up stripped arm | D |
| From some slick hickory or larch | E |
| Sighed o'er the sodden meads of March | E |
| The sad heart thrills and reddens warm | F |
| To hear thee braving the rough storm | F |
| Frail courier of green gathering powers | B |
| Rebelling sap in trunks and flowers | B |
| Love's minister come heralding | G |
| O sweet saint voice among bleak bowers | B |
| Thou brown red pursuivant of Spring | G |
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| II | A |
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| Moan sob the woodland cascades still | H |
| Down bloomless ledges of the hill | H |
| And gray gaunt clouds like harpies hang | I |
| In harpy heavens and swoop and clang | I |
| Sharp beaks and talons of the wind | J |
| Black scowl the forests and unkind | J |
| The far fields as the near while song | K |
| Seems murdered and all passion wrong | K |
| One wild frog only in the thaw | L |
| Of spawny pools wakes cold and raw | M |
| Expires a melancholy bass | B |
| And stops as if bewildered then | N |
| Along the frowning wood again | N |
| Flung in the thin wind's fangy face | B |
| Thou in red woolly tassels proud | O |
| Of bannered maples flutest loud | O |
| Her Grace her Grace her Grace | B |
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| III | A |
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| Her Grace her Grace her Grace | B |
| Climbs beautiful and sunny browed | O |
| Up up the kindling hills and wakes | B |
| Blue berries in the berry brakes | B |
| With fragrant flakes that blow and bleach | P |
| Deep powders smothered quince and peach | P |
| Eyes dogwoods with a thousand eyes | B |
| Teaches each sod how to be wise | B |
| With twenty wild flowers for one weed | Q |
| And kisses germs that they may seed | Q |
| In purest purple and sweet white | R |
| Treads up the happier hills of light | R |
| Bloom cloudy borne song in her hair | C |
| Long dew drops her pale fingers fair | C |
| Big wind retainers and the rains | B |
| Her yeomen strong that flash the plains | B |
| While scarlet mists at dawn and gold | S |
| At eve her panoply enfold | S |
| Her herald tabarded behold | S |
| Awake to greet prepare to sing | G |
| She comes the darling Duchess Spring | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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