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An oven bird is also the remnant ashy coal, still burning, in the oven after the cooking’s done. The bird speaks, even loudly, but does not define - about the question. He says you won’t understand, define, grasp, box the inexplicable turn FROM affirmation to end. It is not when ice and snow abound that one is stricken but when all’s well begins its turn away and why?

In this poem, the rhyme scheme goes as follows: aabcbdcdeefgfg