The Jackdaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHICBI JJKLEK MMNJON PQRSSR| There is a bird who by his coat | A |
| And by the hoarseness of his note | A |
| Might be supposed a crow | B |
| A great frequenter of the church | C |
| Where bishop like he finds a perch | C |
| And dormitory too | D |
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| Above the steeple shines a plate | E |
| That turns and turns to indicate | E |
| From what point blows the weather | F |
| Look up your brains begin to swim | G |
| 'Tis in the clouds that pleases him | G |
| He chooses it the rather | F |
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| Fond of the speculative height | H |
| Thither he wings his airy flight | H |
| And thence securely sees | I |
| The bustle and the rareeshow | C |
| That occupy mankind below | B |
| Secure and at his ease | I |
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| You think no doubt he sits and muses | J |
| On future broken bones and bruises | J |
| If he should chance to fall | K |
| No not a single thought like that | L |
| Employs his philosophic pate | E |
| Or troubles it at all | K |
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| He sees that this great roundabout | M |
| The world with all its motley rout | M |
| Church army physic law | N |
| Its customs and its businesses | J |
| Is no concern at all of his | O |
| And says what says he Caw | N |
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| Thrice happy bird I too have seen | P |
| Much of the vanities of men | Q |
| And sick of having seen 'em | R |
| Would cheerfully these limbs resign | S |
| For such a pair of wings as thine | S |
| And such a head between 'em | R |
William Cowper
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