A Basket Of Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FFFD GBGBHHHB FIFIJJJI KLKLJJJM NONOFFFO EPCPQQQP FRFRQQQR STSTPPPT JJ JKKKJ UVWVSSXV YXYXZA2ZX A SASAB2GGA| From Dawn to Dusk | A |
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| DAWN | B |
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| ON skies still and starlit | C |
| White lustres take hold | D |
| And grey flushes scarlet | E |
| And red flashes gold | D |
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| And sun glories cover | F |
| The rose shed above her | F |
| Like lover and lover | F |
| They flame and unfold | D |
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| Still bloom in the garden | G |
| Green grass plot fresh lawn | B |
| Though pasture lands harden | G |
| And drought fissures yawn | B |
| While leaves not a few fall | H |
| Let rose leaves for you fall | H |
| Leaves pearl strung with dew fall | H |
| And gold shot with dawn | B |
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| Does the grass plot remember | F |
| The fall of your feet | I |
| In Autumn's red ember | F |
| When drought leagues with heat | I |
| When the last of the roses | J |
| Despairingly closes | J |
| In the lull that reposes | J |
| Ere storm winds wax fleet | I |
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| Love's melodies languish | K |
| In 'Chastelard's' strain | L |
| And 'Abelard's' anguish | K |
| Is love's pleasant pain | L |
| And 'Sappho' rehearses | J |
| Love's blessings and curses | J |
| In passionate verses | J |
| Again and again | M |
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| And I I have heard of | N |
| All these long ago | O |
| Yet never one word of | N |
| Their song lore I know | O |
| Not under my finger | F |
| In songs of the singer | F |
| Love's litanies linger | F |
| Love's rhapsodies flow | O |
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| Fresh flowers in a basket | E |
| An offering to you | P |
| Though you did not ask it | C |
| Unbidden I strew | P |
| With heat and drought striving | Q |
| Some blossoms still living | Q |
| May render thanksgiving | Q |
| For dawn and for dew | P |
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| The garlands I gather | F |
| The rhymes I string fast | R |
| Are hurriedly rather | F |
| Then heedlessly cast | R |
| Yon tree's shady awning | Q |
| Is short'ning and warning | Q |
| Far spent is the morning | Q |
| And I must ride fast | R |
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| Songs empty yet airy | S |
| I've striven to write | T |
| For failure dear Mary | S |
| Forgive me Good night | T |
| Songs and flowers may beset you | P |
| I can only regret you | P |
| While the soil where I met you | P |
| Recedes from my sight | T |
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| For the sake of past hours | J |
| For the love of old times | J |
| Take 'A Basket of Flowers ' | - |
| And a bundle of rhymes | J |
| Though all the bloom perish | K |
| E'en your hand can cherish | K |
| While churlish and bearish | K |
| The verse jingle chimes | J |
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| And Eastward by Nor'ward | U |
| Looms sadly my track | V |
| And I must ride forward | W |
| And still I look back | V |
| Look back Ah how vainly | S |
| For while I see plainly | S |
| My hands on the reins lie | X |
| Uncertain and slack | V |
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| The warm wind breathes strong breath | Y |
| The dust dims mine eye | X |
| And I draw one long breath | Y |
| And stifle one sigh | X |
| Green slopes softly shaded | Z |
| Have flitted and faded | A2 |
| My dreams flit as they did | Z |
| Good night and Good bye | X |
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| DUSK | A |
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| Lost rose end my story | S |
| Dead core and dry husk | A |
| Departed thy glory | S |
| And tainted thy musk | A |
| Night spreads her dark limbs on | B2 |
| The face of the dim sun | G |
| So flame fades to crimson | G |
| And crimson to dusk | A |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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