A Basket Of Flowers, From Dawn To Dusk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEEC FAFAGGGA EHEHIIIH JKJKIIIL MNMNEEEN DOBOPPPO EQEQPPPQ RSRSOOOS IIIIJJJI TUVURRWU XWXWYZYW A2 RA2RA2B2FFA2Dawn | A |
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On skies still and starlit | B |
White lustres take hold | C |
And grey flushes scarlet | D |
And red flashes gold | C |
And sun glories cover | E |
The rose shed above her | E |
Like lover and lover | E |
They flame and unfold | C |
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Still bloom in the garden | F |
Green grass plot fresh lawn | A |
Though pasture lands harden | F |
And drought fissures yawn | A |
While leaves not a few fall | G |
Let rose leaves for you fall | G |
Leaves pearl strung with dew fall | G |
And gold shot with dawn | A |
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Does the grass plot remember | E |
The fall of your feet | H |
In autumn's red ember | E |
When drought leagues with heat | H |
When the last of the roses | I |
Despairingly closes | I |
In the lull that reposes | I |
Ere storm winds wax fleet | H |
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Love's melodies languish | J |
In Chastelard's strain | K |
And Abelard's anguish | J |
Is love's pleasant pain | K |
And Sappho rehearses | I |
Love's blessings and curses | I |
In passionate verses | I |
Again and again | L |
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And I I have heard of | M |
All these long ago | N |
Yet never one word of | M |
Their song lore I know | N |
Not under my finger | E |
In songs of the singer | E |
Love's litanies linger | E |
Love's rhapsodies flow | N |
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Fresh flowers in a basket | D |
An offering to you | O |
Though you did not ask it | B |
Unbidden I strew | O |
With heat and drought striving | P |
Some blossoms still living | P |
May render thanksgiving | P |
For dawn and for dew | O |
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The garlands I gather | E |
The rhymes I string fast | Q |
Are hurriedly rather | E |
Than heedlessly cast | Q |
Yon tree's shady awning | P |
Is short'ning and warning | P |
Far spent is the morning | P |
And I must ride fast | Q |
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Songs empty yet airy | R |
I've striven to write | S |
For failure dear Mary | R |
Forgive me Good night | S |
Songs and flowers may beset you | O |
I can only regret you | O |
While the soil where I met you | O |
Recedes from my sight | S |
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For the sake of past hours | I |
For the love of old times | I |
Take A Basket of Flowers | I |
And a bundle of rhymes | I |
Though all the bloom perish | J |
E'en your hand can cherish | J |
While churlish and bearish | J |
The verse jingle chimes | I |
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And Eastward by Nor'ward | T |
Looms sadly my track | U |
And I must ride forward | V |
And still I look back | U |
Look back ah how vainly | R |
For while I see plainly | R |
My hands on the reins lie | W |
Uncertain and slack | U |
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The warm wind breathes strong breath | X |
The dust dims mine eye | W |
And I draw one long breath | X |
And stifle one sigh | W |
Green slopes softly shaded | Y |
Have flitted and faded | Z |
My dreams flit as they did | Y |
Good night and Good bye | W |
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Dusk | A2 |
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Lost rose end my story | R |
Dead core and dry husk | A2 |
Departed thy glory | R |
And tainted thy musk | A2 |
Night spreads her dark limbs on | B2 |
The face of the dim sun | F |
So flame fades to crimson | F |
And crimson to dusk | A2 |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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