A Country Nosegay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJL MNMN OPOP QRQR STUT VWVW CBCB RARA| Where have you been through the long sweet hours | A |
| That follow the fragrant feet of June | B |
| By the dells and the dingles gathering flowers | A |
| Ere the dew of the dawn be sipped by noon | B |
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| And sooth each wilding that buds and blows | C |
| You seem to have found and clustered here | D |
| Round the rustic sprays of the child like rose | C |
| That smiles in one's face till it stirs a tear | E |
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| The clambering vetch and the meadow sweet tall | F |
| That nodded good day as you sauntered past | G |
| And the poppy flaunting atop of the wall | F |
| Which proud as glory will fade as fast | G |
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| The campion bladders the children burst | H |
| The bramble that clutches and won't take nay | I |
| And the pensive delicate foxgloves nursed | H |
| In woods that curtain from glare of day | I |
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| The prosperous elder that always smells | J |
| Of homely joys and the cares that bless | K |
| And the woodbine's waxen and honeyed cells | J |
| A hive of the sweetest idleness | L |
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| And this wayside nosegay is all for me | M |
| For me the poet the word sounds strong | N |
| Well for him at least whatever he be | M |
| Who has loitered his morning away in song | N |
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| And though sweetest poems that ever were writ | O |
| With the posy that up to my gaze you lift | P |
| Seem void of music and poor of wit | O |
| Yet I guess your meaning and take your gift | P |
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| For 'tis true among fields and woods I sing | Q |
| Aloof from cities and my poor strains | R |
| Were born like the simple flowers you bring | Q |
| In English meadows and English lanes | R |
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| If e'er in my verse lurks tender thought | S |
| 'Tis borrowed from cushat or blackbird's throat | T |
| If sweetness any 'tis culled or caught | U |
| From boughs that blossom and clouds that float | T |
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| No rare exotics nor forced are these | V |
| They budded in darkness and throve in storm | W |
| They drank their colour from rain and breeze | V |
| And from sun and season they took their form | W |
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| They peeped through the drift of the winter snows | C |
| They waxed and waned with the waning moon | B |
| Their music they stole from the deep hushed rose | C |
| And all the year round to them is June | B |
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| So let us exchange nor ask who gains | R |
| What each has saved from the morning hours | A |
| Take such as they are my wilding strains | R |
| And I will accept your wilding flowers | A |
Alfred Austin
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