A Bird Song.
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
It's a year almost that I have not seen her:
Oh, last summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.
It's surely summer, for there's a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
Oh happy swallow whose mate will follow
O'er height, o'er hollow! I'd be a swallow,
To build this weather one nest together.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 25, 2023
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| Scheme | AAA BBX BBA |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 69 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
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