Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGH IJKLMNOPQRSTUAADIt was passed from one bird to another | A |
the whole gift of the day | B |
The day went from flute to flute | C |
went dressed in vegetation | D |
in flights which opened a tunnel | E |
through the wind would pass | F |
to where birds were breaking open | D |
the dense blue air | G |
and there night came in | H |
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When I returned from so many journeys | I |
I stayed suspended and green | J |
between sun and geography | K |
I saw how wings worked | L |
how perfumes are transmitted | M |
by feathery telegraph | N |
and from above I saw the path | O |
the springs and the roof tiles | P |
the fishermen at their trades | Q |
the trousers of the foam | R |
I saw it all from my green sky | S |
I had no more alphabet | T |
than the swallows in their courses | U |
the tiny shining water | A |
of the small bird on fire | A |
which dances out of the pollen | D |
Pablo Neruda
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