The Blinded Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCA DEEDFFD GHHHIIH| So zestfully canst thou sing | A |
| And all this indignity | B |
| With God's consent on thee | B |
| Blinded ere yet a wing | A |
| By the red hot needle thou | C |
| I stand and wonder how | C |
| So zestfully thou canst sing | A |
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| Resenting not such wrong | D |
| Thy grievous pain forgot | E |
| Eternal dark thy lot | E |
| Groping thy whole life long | D |
| After that stab of fire | F |
| Enjailed in pitiless wire | F |
| Resenting not such wrong | D |
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| Who hath charity This bird | G |
| Who suffereth long and is kind | H |
| Is not provoked though blind | H |
| And alive ensepulchred | H |
| Who hopeth endureth all things | I |
| Who thinketh no evil but sings | I |
| Who is divine This bird | H |
Thomas Hardy
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