The Sparrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEDDDDFGDDHH DDIIDDJJFFKKLLHHDDJJ HHMNOOCCHH| Let others from the feathered brood | A |
| Which through the garden seeks its food | A |
| Pick out for a commending word | B |
| Each one his own peculiar bird | B |
| Hail the plump tit or fitly sing | C |
| The finch's crest and flashing wing | C |
| Exalt the rook's black satin dress coat | D |
| The thrush's speckled fancy waistcoat | D |
| Or praise the robin meek but sly | E |
| For breast and tail and friendly eye | E |
| These have their place within my heart | D |
| The sparrow owns the larger part | D |
| And for no virtues rules in it | D |
| My reckless cheerful favourite | D |
| Friend sparrow let the world contemn | F |
| Your ways and make a mock of them | G |
| And dub you if it has a mind | D |
| Low quarrelsome and unrefined | D |
| And let it if it will pursue | H |
| With harsh abuse the troops of you | H |
| Who through the orchard and the field | D |
| Their busy bills in mischief wield | D |
| Who strip the tilth and bare the tree | I |
| And make the gardener's face to be | I |
| Expressive of the words he could | D |
| But must not utter though he would | D |
| For gardeners still where'er they go | J |
| Whate'er they do in weal or woe | J |
| Through every chance of life retain | F |
| Their ancient Puritanic strain | F |
| Tried by the weather they control | K |
| Each day their angry human soul | K |
| And by the sparrow teased may tear | L |
| Their careworn locks but never swear | L |
| Let us admit alas 'tis true | H |
| You are not adequately few | H |
| That half your little life is spent | D |
| In furious strife or argument | D |
| Still though your wickedness must harrow | J |
| All feeling souls I love my sparrow | J |
| Still though I oft and gravely doubt you | H |
| I really could not do without you | H |
| Your pluck your wit your nonchalance | M |
| Your cheerful confidence in chance | N |
| Your darting flight your bouts of play | O |
| Your chirp so sociable and gay | O |
| These and no beauty soft or striking | C |
| Make up your passport to my liking | C |
| And for your faults I'll still defend you | H |
| My little sparrow and befriend you | H |
R. C. Lehmann
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