Owl Against Robin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDE EEFFFGGDDHH IIJJJKKLLMMNNOOIIPPQ RSS TTUUHHVVWWXXXXYYZZVV A2A2B2B2IIIIC2C2D2D2 E2Frowning the owl in the oak complained him | A |
Sore that the song of the robin restrained him | A |
Wrongly of slumber rudely of rest | B |
From the north from the east from the south and the west | B |
Woodland wheat field corn field clover | C |
Over and over and over and over | C |
Five o'clock ten o'clock twelve or seven | D |
Nothing but robin songs heard under heaven | D |
How can we sleep | E |
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'Peep ' you whistle and 'cheep cheep cheep ' | - |
Oh peep if you will and buy if 'tis cheap | E |
And have done for an owl must sleep | E |
Are ye singing for fame and who shall be first | F |
Each day's the same yet the last is worst | F |
And the summer is cursed with the silly outburst | F |
Of idiot red breasts peeping and cheeping | G |
By day when all honest birds ought to be sleeping | G |
Lord what a din And so out of all reason | D |
Have ye not heard that each thing hath its season | D |
Night is to work in night is for play time | H |
Good heavens not day time | H |
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A vulgar flaunt is the flaring day | I |
The impudent hot unsparing day | I |
That leaves not a stain nor a secret untold | J |
Day the reporter the gossip of old | J |
Deformity's tease man's common scold | J |
Poh Shut the eyes let the sense go numb | K |
When day down the eastern way has come | K |
'Tis clear as the moon by the argument drawn | L |
From Design that the world should retire at dawn | L |
Day kills The leaf and the laborer breathe | M |
Death in the sun the cities seethe | M |
The mortal black marshes bubble with heat | N |
And puff up pestilence nothing is sweet | N |
Has to do with the sun even virtue will taint | O |
Philosophers say and manhood grow faint | O |
In the lands where the villainous sun has sway | I |
Through the livelong drag of the dreadful day | I |
What Eden but noon light stares it tame | P |
Shadowless brazen forsaken of shame | P |
For the sun tells lies on the landscape now | Q |
Reports me the 'what' unrelieved with the 'how' | R |
As messengers lie with the facts alone | S |
Delivering the word and withholding the tone | S |
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But oh the sweetness and oh the light | T |
Of the high fastidious night | T |
Oh to awake with the wise old stars | U |
The cultured the careful the Chesterfield stars | U |
That wink at the work a day fact of crime | H |
And shine so rich through the ruins of time | H |
That Baalbec is finer than London oh | V |
To sit on the bough that zigzags low | V |
By the woodland pool | W |
And loudly laugh at man the fool | W |
That vows to the vulgar sun oh rare | X |
To wheel from the wood to the window where | X |
A day worn sleeper is dreaming of care | X |
And perch on the sill and straightly stare | X |
Through his visions rare to sail | Y |
Aslant with the hill and a curve with the vale | Y |
To flit down the shadow shot with gleam | Z |
Betwixt hanging leaves and starlit stream | Z |
Hither thither to and fro | V |
Silent aimless dayless slow | V |
'Aimless Field mice ' True they're slain | A2 |
But the night philosophy hoots at pain | A2 |
Grips eats quick and drops the bones | B2 |
In the water beneath the bough nor moans | B2 |
At the death life feeds on Robin pray | I |
Come away come away | I |
To the cultus of night Abandon the day | I |
Have more to think and have less to say | I |
And CANNOT you walk now Bah don't hop | C2 |
Stop | C2 |
Look at the owl scarce seen scarce heard | D2 |
O irritant iterant maddening bird | D2 |
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Baltimore | E2 |
Sidney Lanier
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