Bird Watcher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHIHJJIn Wall Street once a potent power | A |
And now a multi millionaire | B |
Alone within a shady bower | A |
In clothes his valet would not wear | B |
He watches bird wings bright the air | B |
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The man who mighty mergers planned | C |
And oil and coal kinglike controlled | D |
With field glasses in failing hand | C |
Spies downy nestlings five days old | D |
With joy he could not buy for gold | D |
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Aye even childlike is his glee | E |
But how he crisps with hate and dread | F |
And shakes a clawlike fist to see | E |
A kestrel hover overhead | F |
Though he would never shoot it dead | F |
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Although his cook afar doth forage | G |
For food to woo his appetite | H |
The old man lives on milk and porridge | I |
And now it is his last delight | H |
At eve if one lone linnet lingers | J |
To pick crushed almonds from his fingers | J |
Robert William Service
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