Suggested By A Picture Of The Bird Of Paradise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEFDFFGHHIJJKK EEILLI MMNNOOPPPQQQ| The gentlest Poet with free thoughts endowed | A |
| And a true master of the glowing strain | B |
| Might scan the narrow province with disdain | B |
| That to the Painter's skill is here allowed | A |
| This this the Bird of Paradise disclaim | C |
| The daring thought forget the name | C |
| This the Sun's Bird whom Glendoveers might own | D |
| As no unworthy Partner in their flight | E |
| Through seas of ether where the ruffling sway | F |
| Of nether air's rude billows is unknown | D |
| Whom Sylphs if e'er for casual pastime they | F |
| Through India's spicy regions wing their way | F |
| Might bow to as their Lord What character | G |
| O sovereign Nature I appeal to thee | H |
| Of all thy feathered progeny | H |
| Is so unearthly and what shape so fair | I |
| So richly decked in variegated down | J |
| Green sable shining yellow shadowy brown | J |
| Tints softly with each other blended | K |
| Hues doubtfully begun and ended | K |
| Or intershooting and to sight | E |
| Lost and recovered as the rays of light | E |
| Glance on the conscious plumes touched here and there | I |
| Full surely when with such proud gifts of life | L |
| Began the pencil's strife | L |
| O'erweening Art was caught as in a snare | I |
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| A sense of seemingly presumptuous wrong | M |
| Gave the first impulse to the Poet's song | M |
| But of his scorn repenting soon he drew | N |
| A juster judgment from a calmer view | N |
| And with a spirit freed from discontent | O |
| Thankfully took an effort that was meant | O |
| Not with God's bounty Nature's love to vie | P |
| Or made with hope to please that inward eye | P |
| Which ever strives in vain itself to satisfy | P |
| But to recall the truth by some faint trace | Q |
| Of power ethereal and celestial grace | Q |
| That in the living Creature find on earth a place | Q |
William Wordsworth
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