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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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