The Bird With The Coppery, Keen Claws Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDD AEE EFF GHH IJJ| Above the forest of the parakeets | A |
| A parakeet of parakeets prevails | B |
| A pip of life amid a mort of tails | B |
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| The rudiments of tropics are around | C |
| Aloe of ivory pear of rusty rind | D |
| His lids are white because his eyes are blind | D |
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| He is not paradise of parakeets | A |
| Of his gold ether golden alguazil | E |
| Except because he broods there and is still | E |
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| Panache upon panache his tails deploy | E |
| Upward and outward in green vented forms | F |
| His tip a drop of water full of storms | F |
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| But though the turbulent tinges undulate | G |
| As his pure intellect applies its laws | H |
| He moves not on his coppery keen claws | H |
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| He munches a dry shell while he exerts | I |
| His will yet never ceases perfect cock | J |
| To flare in the sun pallor of his rock | J |
Wallace Stevens
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