The Bird Of Paradise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDED FBGB HIJ KLML NOPO HIJ| Here comes Kate Summers who for gold | A |
| Takes any man to bed | B |
| You knew my friend Nell Barnes she said | B |
| You knew Nell Barnes she's dead | B |
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| Nell Barnes was bad on all you men | C |
| Unclean a thief as well | D |
| Yet all my life I have not found | E |
| A better friend than Nell | D |
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| So I sat at her side at last | F |
| For hours till she was dead | B |
| And yet she had no sense at all | G |
| Of any word I said | B |
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| For all her cry but came to this | H |
| 'Not for the world Take care | I |
| Don't touch that bird of paradise | J |
| Perched on the bed post there ' | - |
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| I asked her would she like some grapes | K |
| Som damsons ripe and sweet | L |
| A custard made with new laid eggs | M |
| Or tender fowl to eat | L |
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| I promised I would follow her | N |
| To see her in her grave | O |
| And buy a wreath with borrowed pence | P |
| If nothing I could save | O |
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| Yet still her cry but came to this | H |
| 'Not for the world Take care | I |
| Don't touch that bird of paradise | J |
| Perched on the bed post there ' | - |
William Henry Davies
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