Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGH IJKLMNOPQRSTUAAD| It 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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