David Ap Gwillam At The Mass Of The Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFD GAHIAJKI| THE Thrush the Lark and chief the Nightingale | A |
| With one small bird whose name I do not ken | B |
| Offered a Mass the little bird was clerk | C |
| At intervals he struck his silver bell | D |
| The stars above that were but whitened then | B |
| The candles were the altar was a stone | E |
| Myself was there with meet observances | F |
| Hearing the Mass the birds said in the dell | D |
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| It was the Lark who sang in dark's decrease | G |
| Kyrie Eleison then the Nightingale | A |
| The Consecration chanted solemnly | H |
| The silver bell was rung for him in chief | I |
| And then the Thrush the dweller in the vale | A |
| Orate Fratres sang how near how clear | J |
| The Thrush it was who as the sun appeared | K |
| Held up the Monstrance a dew circled leaf | I |
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