The Resplendent Quetzal-bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDBE FEFB| OTHERS have divers paints and enamels | A |
| Lavish and bright on breast and wing feathers | B |
| You Guatemalan have sunken all colours | B |
| Into glory of greenness | B |
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| There may be palms as greenly resplendent | C |
| Palms by the Fountain of Youth in Anahuac | D |
| Such greens there may be on sea sunken bronzes | B |
| The Gates of Callao | E |
| - | |
| There may be words in rituals spoken | F |
| To Quetzalcoatl who makes verdure through rain flow | E |
| Words like the gash made by knives of obsidian | F |
| To tell of such greenness | B |
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