To A Canary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM AJAJ| Imprison'd songster thou for me | A |
| Hath warbl'd many a cheerful lay | B |
| Thy songs so sweetly glad and free | A |
| Revive my heart from day to day | B |
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| The frost is keen the wind is cold | C |
| No wild bird twitters from the spray | B |
| But still resounding as of old | C |
| Thy voice thrills forth and seems to say | B |
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| Wake up O sadden'd mortal wake | D |
| Shake off that anxious careworn frown | E |
| Thy hopes renew fresh courage take | D |
| Nor let your troubles weigh you down | E |
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| See I am happy all alone | F |
| And kept behind the prison bars | G |
| I sing and shouldst thou ever moan | F |
| A mortal free beneath the stars | G |
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| I fly around my narrow cage | H |
| I sing the song that gladdens you | I |
| But carking care thy thoughts engage | H |
| While walking free 'neath heaven's blue | I |
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| My heart might faint my spirit die | J |
| Far from my kind and from my home | K |
| But cheerfully I sing and fly | J |
| Beneath my narrow prison's dome | K |
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| Oh list sad mortal to my song | L |
| And while thou hearest mark it well | M |
| And go thy cheerful way along | L |
| Nor pray to know what none can tell | M |
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| I'll sing my song each day for thee | A |
| And live the moments as they fly | J |
| With gladden'd heart with sounding glee | A |
| And thou shouldst do the same as I | J |
Thomas Frederick Young
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