Invitation To The Redbreast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLMNM DOPOQRQR| Sweet bird whom the winter constrains | A |
| And seldom another it can | B |
| To seek a retreat while he reigns | A |
| In the well shelter d dwellings of man | B |
| Who never can seem to intrude | C |
| Though in all places equally free | D |
| Come oft as the season is rude | C |
| Thou art sure to be welcome to me | D |
| - | |
| At sight of the first feeble ray | E |
| That pierces the clouds of the east | F |
| To inveigle thee every day | E |
| My windows shall show thee a feast | F |
| For taught by experience I know | G |
| Thee mindful of benefit long | H |
| And that thankful for all I bestow | G |
| Thou wilt pay me with many a song | H |
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| Then soon as the swell of the buds | I |
| Bespeaks the renewal of spring | J |
| Fly hence if thou wilt to the woods | K |
| Or where it shall please thee to sing | J |
| And shouldst thou compell d by a frost | L |
| Come again to my window or door | M |
| Doubt not an affectionate host | N |
| Only pay as thou paid st me before | M |
| - | |
| This music must needs be confess d | D |
| To flow from a fountain above | O |
| Else how should it work in the breast | P |
| Unchangeable friendship and love | O |
| And who on the globe can be found | Q |
| Save your generation and ours | R |
| That can be delighted by sound | Q |
| Or boasts any musical powers | R |
William Cowper
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