A Wren's Nest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCDC EFBF GBHB BIJI KLML NOBO PQRQ STUT VEWE XYQZ A2B2BB2 JLC2L HED2E E2BF2B G2H2BH2 I2J2K2J2 F2ZL2Yith nice care | A |
Is none that with the little Wren's | B |
In snugness may compare | A |
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No door the tenement requires | B |
And seldom needs a laboured roof | C |
Yet is it to the fiercest sun | D |
Impervious and storm proof | C |
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So warm so beautiful withal | E |
In perfect fitness for its aim | F |
That to the Kind by special grace | B |
Their instinct surely came | F |
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And when for their abodes they seek | G |
An opportune recess | B |
The hermit has no finer eye | H |
For shadowy quietness | B |
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These find 'mid ivied abbey walls | B |
A canopy in some still nook | I |
Others are pent housed by a brae | J |
That overhangs a brook | I |
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There to the brooding bird her mate | K |
Warbles by fits his low clear song | L |
And by the busy streamlet both | M |
Are sung to all day long | L |
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Or in sequestered lanes they build | N |
Where till the flitting bird's return | O |
Her eggs within the nest repose | B |
Like relics in an urn | O |
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But still where general choice is good | P |
There is a better and a best | Q |
And among fairest objects some | R |
Are fairer than the rest | Q |
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This one of those small builders proved | S |
In a green covert where from out | T |
The forehead of a pollard oak | U |
The leafy antlers sprout | T |
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For She who planned the mossy lodge | V |
Mistrusting her evasive skill | E |
Had to a Primrose looked for aid | W |
Her wishes to fulfill | E |
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High on the trunk's projecting brow | X |
And fixed an infant's span above | Y |
The budding flowers peeped forth the nest | Q |
The prettiest of the grove | Z |
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The treasure proudly did I show | A2 |
To some whose minds without disdain | B2 |
Can turn to little things but once | B |
Looked up for it in vain | B2 |
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'Tis gone a ruthless spoiler's prey | J |
Who heeds not beauty love or song | L |
'Tis gone so seemed it and we grieved | C2 |
Indignant at the wrong | L |
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Just three days after passing by | H |
In clearer light the moss built cell | E |
I saw espied its shaded mouth | D2 |
And felt that all was well | E |
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The Primrose for a veil had spread | E2 |
The largest of her upright leaves | B |
And thus for purposes benign | F2 |
A simple flower deceives | B |
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Concealed from friends who might disturb | G2 |
Thy quiet with no ill intent | H2 |
Secure from evil eyes and hands | B |
On barbarous plunder bent | H2 |
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Rest Mother bird and when thy young | I2 |
Take flight and thou art free to roam | J2 |
When withered is the guardian Flower | K2 |
And empty thy late home | J2 |
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Think how ye prospered thou and thine | F2 |
Amid the unviolated grove | Z |
Housed near the growing Primrose tuft | L2 |
In foresight or in love | Y |
William Wordsworth
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