The Cuckoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNBJBJ OPOQRJRJ| No lyric line I ever penned | A |
| The praise this parasitic bird | B |
| And what is more I don't intend | A |
| To write a laudatory word | B |
| Since in my garden robins made | C |
| A nest with eggs of dainty spot | D |
| And then a callous cuckoo laid | C |
| A lone on on the lot | D |
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| Of course the sillies hatched it out | E |
| Along with their two tiny chicks | F |
| And there it threw its weight about | E |
| But with the others would not mix | F |
| In fact it seemed their guts to hate | G |
| And crossly kicked them to the ground | H |
| So that next morning sorry fate | G |
| Two babes stone dead I found | H |
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| These stupid robins how they strove | I |
| To gluttonize that young cuckoo | J |
| And like a prodigy it throve | I |
| And daily greedier it grew | J |
| How it would snap and glup and spit | K |
| Till finally it came to pass | L |
| Growing too big the nest to fit | K |
| It fell out on the grass | L |
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| So for a week they fed it there | M |
| As in a nook of turf it lay | N |
| But it was scornful of their care | M |
| for it was twice as big as they | N |
| When lo one afternoon I heard | B |
| A flutelike call Cuckoo Cuckoo | J |
| Then suddenly that foulsome bird | B |
| Flapped to its feet and flew | J |
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| I'm sure it never said goodbye | O |
| To its fond foster Pa and Ma | P |
| Though to their desolated sigh | O |
| It might have chirruped Au revoir | Q |
| But no it went in wanton mood | R |
| Flying the coop for climates new | J |
| And so I say Ingratitude | R |
| They name's Cuckoo | J |
Robert William Service
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