The Mother Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDEFEGHIJCKBAB| Through the green twilight of a hedge | A |
| I peered with cheek on the cool leaves pressed | B |
| And spied a bird upon a nest | B |
| Two eyes she had beseeching me | C |
| Meekly and brave and her brown breast | B |
| Throbb'd hot and quick above her heart | D |
| And then she oped her dagger bill | E |
| 'Twas not a chirp as sparrows pipe | F |
| At break of day 'twas not a trill | E |
| As falters through the quiet even | G |
| But one sharp solitary note | H |
| One desperate fierce and vivid cry | I |
| Of valiant tears and hopeless joy | J |
| One passionate note of victory | C |
| Off like a fool afraid I sneaked | K |
| Smiling the smile the fool smiles best | B |
| At the mother bird in the secret hedge | A |
| Patient upon her lonely nest | B |
Walter De La Mare
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Varshini : This poem is memory poem toe so I was went to Google and I search mother bird there in a pic I saw down of the picture there internet poem.com there given so I came this .com and I search its very nice its real thank you
Philip Lane: Not a word wasted. Good imagery.
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