The Blackbird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD DDEEFFDD GGGGGGDD HHDDDDII JJKKGGEEDD| Ov all the birds upon the wing | A |
| Between the zunny showers o' spring | A |
| Vor all the lark a swingen high | B |
| Mid zing below a cloudless sky | B |
| An' sparrows clust'ren roun' the bough | C |
| Mid chatter to the men at plough | C |
| The blackbird whisslen in among | D |
| The boughs do zing the gayest zong | D |
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| Vor we do hear the blackbird zing | D |
| His sweetest ditties in the spring | D |
| When nippen win's noo mwore do blow | E |
| Vrom northern skies wi' sleet or snow | E |
| But dreve light doust along between | F |
| The leane zide hedges thick an' green | F |
| An' zoo the blackbird in among | D |
| The boughs do zing the gayest zong | D |
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| 'Tis blithe wi' newly opened eyes | G |
| To zee the mornen's ruddy skies | G |
| Or out a haulen frith or lops | G |
| Vrom new pleshed hedge or new velled copse | G |
| To rest at noon in primrwose beds | G |
| Below the white barked woak trees' heads | G |
| But there's noo time the whole day long | D |
| Lik' evenen wi' the blackbird's zong | D |
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| Vor when my work is all a done | H |
| Avore the zetten o' the zun | H |
| Then blushen Jeane do walk along | D |
| The hedge to meet me in the drong | D |
| An' stay till all is dim an' dark | D |
| Bezides the ashen tree's white bark | D |
| An' all bezides the blackbird's shrill | I |
| An' runnen evenen whissle's still | I |
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| An' there in bwoyhood I did rove | J |
| Wi' pryen eyes along the drove | J |
| To vind the nest the blackbird meade | K |
| O' grass stalks in the high bough's sheade | K |
| Or climb aloft wi' clingen knees | G |
| Vor crows' aggs up in swayen trees | G |
| While frightened blackbirds down below | E |
| Did chatter o' their little foe | E |
| An' zoo there's noo pleace lik' the drong | D |
| Where I do hear the blackbird's zong | D |
William Barnes
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