The Sugar Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE BFBFGHGH EIEIJKJK| Thou splendid child of southern skies | A |
| Thy brilliant plumes and graceful form | B |
| Are not so precious in mine eyes | A |
| As those gray heralds of the morn | C |
| Which in my own beloved land | D |
| Welcome the azure car of spring | E |
| When budding flowers and leaves expand | D |
| On hawthorn boughs and sweetly sing | E |
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| But thou art suited to the clime | B |
| The golden clime that gave thee birth | F |
| Where beauty reigns o'er scenes sublime | B |
| And fadeless verdure decks the earth | F |
| Where nature faints beneath the blaze | G |
| Of her own gorgeous crown of light | H |
| And exiled eyes with aching gaze | G |
| Sigh for the softer shades of night | H |
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| That memory to their dreams may bring | E |
| Past scenes to cheer their sleeping eye | I |
| The dark green woods where linnets sing | E |
| And echo wafts the faint reply | I |
| Ah from those voiceless birds that glow | J |
| Like living gems 'mid blossoms rare | K |
| The captive turns in sullen woe | J |
| To climes more dear and scenes less fair | K |
Susanna Moodie
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Estelle Neethling : The Sugarbird poem comes to me when it means the most to me. They are exquisite, little flying ballet dancers that make the heart leap. Thank you for the most beautiful poem about my most favourite creature of nature.
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