Song Of Starlings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBBEFGBBBBBBB| WE'VE watched the starlings flocking past the statues | A |
| That we have often seen in other cities | B |
| Hope Justice Commerce and have heard them sing | C |
| Unvarying songs that are their memories | B |
| Memories of winds that they've been blown by | D |
| And rivers bordered with their beds of sedges | B |
| And level lands on which are empty folds | B |
| Daylight dims and we | E |
| May not return to where a lamp | F |
| Beams making a room familiar and a wife | G |
| Tells of the children's doings we hear the starlings | B |
| As we have heard them often in other cities | B |
| Around other cupolas along other cornices | B |
| In sunless parks bunched on the tops of trees | B |
| And see around us bleak monotonous fields | B |
| Our hearts must ever hold theirs are these songs | B |
| These are the songs that most touch us exiles | B |
Padraic Colum
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