The Poem
The poem begins with an epigraph reading "The spuggies are fledged", and although the word "spuggies" is not in the Oxford English Dictionary, the text contains a note explaining that the word means "little sparrows". The poem itself has a five part structure. The first part has a regular structure of 12 stanzas each containing 13 lines. In the following four parts the stanzas vary in length from couplets to quatrains to stanzas of more than 20 lines. The rhyme scheme also changes throughout the poem as the bulk of the text appears in free verse while other lines do contain rhyming patterns.
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