Bird Sanctuary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IDIDJKJK| Between the cliff rise and the beach | A |
| A slip of emerald I own | B |
| With fig and olive almond peach | A |
| cherry and plum tree overgrown | B |
| Glad watered by a crystal spring | C |
| That carols through the silver night | D |
| And populous with birds who sing | C |
| Gay madrigals for my delight | D |
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| Some merchants fain would buy my land | E |
| To build a stately pleasure dome | F |
| Poor fools they cannot understand | E |
| how pricelessly it is my home | F |
| So luminous with living wings | G |
| So musical with feathered joy | H |
| Not for all pleasure fortune brings | G |
| Would I such ecstasy destroy | H |
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| A thousand birds are in my grove | I |
| Melodious from morn to night | D |
| My fruit trees are their treasure trove | I |
| Their happiness is my delight | D |
| And through the sweet and shining days | J |
| They know their lover and their friend | K |
| So I will shield in peace and praise | J |
| My innocents unto the end | K |
Robert Service
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