The Redbreast Chasing The Butterfly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHIIHJJKKLM DBMNGGOONPPKGGNQNNQ| Art thou the bird whom Man loves best | A |
| The pious bird with the scarlet breast | A |
| Our little English Robin | B |
| The bird that comes about our doors | C |
| When Autumn winds are sobbing | D |
| Art thou the Peter of Norway Boors | E |
| Their Thomas in Finland | F |
| And Russia far inland | F |
| The bird that by some name or other | G |
| All men who know thee call their brother | G |
| The darling of children and men | H |
| Could Father Adam open his eyes | I |
| And see this sight beneath the skies | I |
| He'd wish to close them again | H |
| If the Butterfly knew but his friend | J |
| Hither his flight he would bend | J |
| And find his way to me | K |
| Under the branches of the tree | K |
| In and out he darts about | L |
| Can this be the bird to man so good | M |
| That after their bewildering | D |
| Covered with leaves the little children | B |
| So painfully in the wood | M |
| What ailed thee Robin that thou could'st pursue | N |
| A beautiful creature | G |
| That is gentle by nature | G |
| Beneath the summer sky | O |
| From flower to flower let him fly | O |
| 'Tis all that he wishes to do | N |
| The cheerer Thou of our in door sadness | P |
| He is the friend of our summer gladness | P |
| What hinders then that ye should be | K |
| Playmates in the sunny weather | G |
| And fly about in the air together | G |
| His beautiful wings in crimson are drest | N |
| A crimson as bright as thine own | Q |
| Would'st thou be happy in thy nest | N |
| O pious Bird whom man loves best | N |
| Love him or leave him alone | Q |
William Wordsworth
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