Death Of The Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGHG IJIJ KLKL IMIM CJNJ| I love my mother the wildwood | A |
| I sleep upon her breast | B |
| A day or two of childhood | A |
| And then I sink to rest | B |
| - | |
| I had once a lovely sister | C |
| She was cradled by my side | D |
| But one Summer day I missed her | C |
| She had gone to deck a bride | D |
| - | |
| And I had another sister | C |
| With cheeks all bright with bloom | E |
| And another morn I missed her | C |
| She had gone to wreathe a tomb | E |
| - | |
| And they told me they had withered | F |
| On the bride's brow and the grave | G |
| Half an hour and all their fragrance | H |
| Died away which heaven gave | G |
| - | |
| Two sweet faced girls came walking | I |
| Thro' my lonely home one day | J |
| And I overheard them talking | I |
| Of an altar on their way | J |
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| They were culling flowers around me | K |
| And I said a little prayer | L |
| To go with them and they found me | K |
| And upon an altar fair | L |
| - | |
| Where the Eucharist was lying | I |
| On its mystical death bed | M |
| I felt myself a dying | I |
| While the Mass was being said | M |
| - | |
| But I lived a little longer | C |
| And I prayed there all the day | J |
| Till the evening Benediction | N |
| When my poor life passed away | J |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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