Thirteen Blackbirds Looking At A Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGH A IIJKLMH A NIOPDCM F DKAM F QRSTU A SSSVM A SSNG A WFXSYS S ZDNA2B2T S C2C2MSD S NTSSD2 S SNSSE2F2 S SSG2DH2I | A |
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It is calm | B |
It is as though | C |
we lived in a garden | D |
that had not yet arrived | E |
at the knowledge of | F |
good and evil | G |
But there is a man in it | H |
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II | A |
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There will be | I |
rain falling vertically | I |
from an indifferent | J |
sky There will stare out | K |
from behind its | L |
bars the face of the man | M |
who is not enjoying it | H |
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III | A |
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Nothing higher | N |
than a blackberry | I |
bush As the sun comes up | O |
fresh what is the darkness | P |
stretching from horizon | D |
to horizon It is the shadow | C |
here of the forked man | M |
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IV | F |
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We have eaten | D |
the blackberries and spat out | K |
the seeds but they lie | A |
glittering like the eyes of a man | M |
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V | F |
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After we have stopped | Q |
singing the garden is disturbed | R |
by echoes It is | S |
the man whistling expecting | T |
everything to come to him | U |
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VI | A |
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We wipe our beaks | S |
on the branches | S |
wasting the dawn's | S |
jewellery to get rid | V |
of the taste of a man | M |
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VII | A |
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Nevertheless | S |
which is not the case | S |
with a man our | N |
bills give us no trouble | G |
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VIII | A |
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Who said the | W |
number was unlucky | F |
It was a man who | X |
trying to pass us | S |
had his licence endorsed | Y |
thirteen times | S |
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IX | S |
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In the cool | Z |
of the day the garden | D |
seems given over | N |
to blackbirds Yet | A2 |
we know also that somewhere | B2 |
there is a man in hiding | T |
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X | S |
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To us there are | C2 |
eggs and there are | C2 |
blackbirds But there is the man | M |
too trying without feathers | S |
to incubate a solution | D |
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XI | S |
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We spread our | N |
wings reticulating | T |
our air space A man stands | S |
under us and worries | S |
at his ability to do the same | D2 |
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XII | S |
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When night comes | S |
like a visitor | N |
from outer space | S |
we stop our ears | S |
lest we should hear tell | E2 |
of the man in the moon | F2 |
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XIII | S |
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Summer is | S |
at an end The migrants | S |
depart When they return | G2 |
in spring to the garden | D |
will there be a man among them | H2 |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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