The Bird Of Jesus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFC GFHI JKLMN OHPQR SPETUC VETW XYZA2T QB2HRC2R D2HE2F2G2FFH H2I2BJ2SK2 C2J2C2L2M2R I2IT was pure indeed | A |
The air we breathed in the light we saw | B |
I and my brother when we played that day | C |
Or piped to one another then there came | D |
Two young lads of an age with one another | E |
And with us two and these two played with us | F |
And went away | C |
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Each had a bearing that was like a prince's | G |
Yet they were simple lads and had the kindness | F |
Of our own folk lads simple and unknowing | H |
Then afterwards we went to visit them | I |
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Theirs was a village that was not far off | J |
But out of reach towards elbow not towards hand | K |
And what was there were houses | L |
Houses and some trees | M |
And it was like a place within a fold | N |
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We found the lads | O |
And found them still as simple and unknowing | H |
And played with them we played outside the stall | P |
Where worked the father of the wiser lad | Q |
Not brothers were the boys but cousins' children | R |
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There was a pit | S |
We brought back clay and sat beside the stall | P |
And made birds out of clay and then my brother | E |
Took up his bird and flung it in the air | T |
His playmate did as he | U |
And clay fell down upon the face of clay | C |
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And then I took | V |
The shavings of the board the carpenter | E |
Was working on and flung them in the air | T |
And watched them streaming down | W |
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There would be nought to tell | X |
Had not the wiser of the lads took up | Y |
The clay he shaped a little bird it was | Z |
He tossed it from his hand up to his head | A2 |
The bird stayed in the air | T |
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O what delight we had | Q |
To see it fly and pause that little bird | B2 |
Sinking to earth sometimes and sometimes rising | H |
As though to fly into the very sun | R |
At last it spread out wings and flew and flew | C2 |
Flew to the sun | R |
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I do not think | D2 |
That we played any more or thought of playing | H |
For every drop of blood our bodies held | E2 |
Was free and playing free and playing then | F2 |
Four lads together on the bench we sat | G2 |
Nothing was in the open air around us | F |
And yet we thought something was there for us | F |
A secret charmed thing | H |
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So we went homeward by soft ways we went | H2 |
That wound us back to our familiar place | I2 |
Some increase lay upon the things we saw | B |
I'll speak of grasses but you'll never know | J2 |
What grass was there words wither it and make it | S |
Like to the desert children's dream of grass | K2 |
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Lambs in the grass but I will not have shown you | C2 |
What fleece of purity they had to show | J2 |
I'll speak of birds but I will not have told you | C2 |
How their song filled the heart and when I speak | L2 |
Of him my brother you will never guess | M2 |
How we two were at one | R |
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Even to our mother we had gained in grace | I2 |
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