Allouette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI DGDGJFJF GFGFKGKG| Singing larks I saw for sale | A |
| Ah the pain of it | B |
| Plucked and ready to impale | A |
| On a roasting spit | B |
| Happy larks that summer long | C |
| Stormed the radiant sky | D |
| Adoration in their song | C |
| Packed to make a pie | D |
| - | |
| Hark from springs of joy unseen | E |
| Spray their jewelled notes | F |
| Tangle them in nets of green | E |
| Twist their lyric throats | F |
| Clip their wings and string them tight | G |
| Stab them with a skewer | H |
| All to tempt the apptite | G |
| Of the epicure | I |
| - | |
| Shade of Shelley Come not nigh | D |
| This accurs d spot | G |
| Where for sixpence one can buy | D |
| Skylarks for the pot | G |
| Dante paint a blacker hell | J |
| Plunge in deeper darks | F |
| Wretches who can slay and sell | J |
| Sunny hearted larks | F |
| - | |
| You who eat you are the worst | G |
| By internal pains | F |
| May you ever be accurst | G |
| Who pluck these poor remains | F |
| But for you wing d joy would soar | K |
| To heaven from the sod | G |
| In ecstasy a lark would pour | K |
| Its gratitude to God | G |
Robert William Service
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