The Bird In The Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MHMHNONO PQPQRBRB| A robin skimmed into the room | A |
| And blithe he looked and jolly | B |
| A foe to every sort of gloom | A |
| And most to melancholy | B |
| He cocked his head he made no sound | C |
| But gave me stare for stare back | D |
| When having fluttered round and round | C |
| He perched upon a chair back | D |
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| I rose ah then it seemed he knew | E |
| Too late his reckless error | F |
| Away in eager haste he flew | E |
| And at his tail flew terror | F |
| Now here now there from wall to floor | G |
| For mere escape appealing | H |
| He fled and struck against the door | G |
| Or bumped about the ceiling | H |
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| I went and flung each window wide | I |
| I drew each half raised blind up | J |
| To coax him out in vain I tried | I |
| He could not make his mind up | J |
| He flew he fell he took a rest | K |
| And off again he scuffled | L |
| With parted beak and panting breast | K |
| And every feather ruffled | L |
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| At length I lured him to the sill | M |
| All dazed and undivining | H |
| Beyond was peace o'er vale and hill | M |
| And all the air was shining | H |
| I stretched my hand and touched him then | N |
| He made no more resistance | O |
| But left the cramped abode of men | N |
| And flew into the distance | O |
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| Is life like that We make it so | P |
| We leave the sunny spaces | Q |
| And beat about or high or low | P |
| In dark and narrow places | Q |
| Till worn with failure vexed with doubt | R |
| Our strength at last we rally | B |
| And the bruised spirit flutters out | R |
| To find the happy valley | B |
R. C. Lehmann
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