The Lent Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF CDCDD'Tis spring come out to ramble | A |
The hilly brakes around | B |
For under thorn and bramble | A |
About the hollow ground | B |
The primroses are found | B |
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And there's the windflower chilly | C |
With all the winds at play | D |
And there's the Lenten lily | C |
That has not long to stay | D |
And dies on Easter day | D |
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And since till girls go maying | E |
You find the primrose still | F |
And find the windflower playing | E |
With every wind at will | F |
But not the daffodil | F |
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Bring baskets now and sally | C |
Upon the spring's array | D |
And bear from hill and valley | C |
The daffodil away | D |
That dies on Easter day | D |
A. E. Housman
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