The Contrast - The Parrot And The Wren Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC EFFF GFHF FIFJ FKFK LLLL A AMAM LLLL FNFN OPOPLL| I | A |
| - | |
| Within her gilded cage confined | B |
| I saw a dazzling Belle | C |
| A Parrot of that famous kind | B |
| Whose name is Non Pareil | C |
| - | |
| Like beads of glossy jet her eyes | D |
| And smoothed by Nature's skill | C |
| With pearl or gleaming agate vies | D |
| Her finely curved bill | C |
| - | |
| Her plumy mantle's living hues | E |
| In mass opposed to mass | F |
| Outshine the splendour that imbues | F |
| The robes of pictured glass | F |
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| And sooth to say an apter Mate | G |
| Did never tempt the choice | F |
| Of feathered Thing most delicate | H |
| In figure and in voice | F |
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| But exiled from Australian bowers | F |
| And singleness her lot | I |
| She trills her song with tutored powers | F |
| Or mocks each casual note | J |
| - | |
| No more of pity for regrets | F |
| With which she may have striven | K |
| Now but in wantonness she frets | F |
| Or spite if cause be given | K |
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| Arch volatile a sportive bird | L |
| By social glee inspired | L |
| Ambitious to be seen or heard | L |
| And pleased to be admired | L |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| This moss lined shed green soft and dry | A |
| Harbours a self contented Wren | M |
| Not shunning man's abode though shy | A |
| Almost as thought itself of human ken | M |
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| Strange places coverts unendeared | L |
| She never tried the very nest | L |
| In which this Child of Spring was reared | L |
| Is warmed thro' winter by her feathery breast | L |
| - | |
| To the bleak winds she sometimes gives | F |
| A slender unexpected strain | N |
| Proof that the hermitess still lives | F |
| Though she appear not and be sought in vain | N |
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| Say Dora tell me by yon placid moon | O |
| If called to choose between the favoured pair | P |
| Which would you be the bird of the saloon | O |
| By lady fingers tended with nice care | P |
| Caressed applauded upon dainties fed | L |
| Or Nature's darkling of this mossy shed | L |
William Wordsworth
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