A Bird Came Down The Walk.

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a convenient Grass–

And then hopped sidewise to the Wall

To let a Beetle pass–

When the bird finally flies away the poem's flow mimics that of a flying bird, very calm and free "And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home–". She describes a birds flight like rowing in an ocean, but without all the splashing of the oars.

In the first two stanza of the poem she rhymes the second and fourth lines of the quatrain.

A Bird came down the Walk–

He did not know I saw–

He bit an Angleworm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw,

She uses this rhyme scheme to show that the bird is not frightened yet and has not noticed her presence. Then she switches to half-rhymes to covey that the bird is beginning to be scared because he notices her watching. "That hurried all around– / They looked like frightened beads, I thought– / he stirred his Velvet Head". She rhymes around and head ...

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