Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part I. - Xvi - Persuasion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFDFE| Man's life is like a Sparrow mighty King | A |
| That while at banquet with your Chiefs you sit | B |
| Housed near a blazing fire is seen to flit | B |
| Safe from the wintry tempest Fluttering | A |
| Here did it enter there on hasty wing | A |
| Flies out and passes on from cold to cold | C |
| But whence it came we know not nor behold | C |
| Whither it goes Even such that transient Thing | A |
| The human Soul not utterly unknown | D |
| While in the Body lodged her warm abode | E |
| But from what world She came what woe or weal | F |
| On her departure waits no tongue hath shown | D |
| This mystery if the Stranger can reveal | F |
| His be a welcome cordially bestowed | E |
William Wordsworth
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