A Florilegium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKKL L AMMMMLLMMNNMMOOPPQQL L APPPPMMLLRRSSFFSSSSP P MMMMTSMMSFMMFPSS SPPPPSS| I | A |
| All the seasons of the year | B |
| I have flowers for you dear | B |
| When the ploughland's flecked with snow | C |
| And the blue eyed scyllas blow | C |
| Gazing through the wintry gale | D |
| Like your eyes when you are pale | D |
| When in many a cloistered walk | E |
| Droop upon their modest stalk | E |
| Vestal snowdrops one by one | F |
| White as is a wimpled nun | F |
| When as sleet away doth slip | G |
| And the thawing gables drip | G |
| The precocious crocus peers | H |
| Childlike sunshine half half tears | I |
| And from out the snug warm leaves | J |
| Silent housewife Winter weaves | J |
| Scarlet windflowers wide unfurled | K |
| Dazzle an awakened world | K |
| These and more to you I bring | L |
| Bold outriders of the Spring | L |
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| II | A |
| When along the Northern skies | M |
| Routed Winter shrieks and flies | M |
| And again the mavis shrills | M |
| Come the dauntless daffodils | M |
| Laughing as they sway and swing | L |
| At rude March's blustering | L |
| These I gather and with these | M |
| Rosy white anemones | M |
| Like the coral shells you wear | N |
| Sometimes in your hazel hair | N |
| Primroses loved none the less | M |
| For their wilding lavishness | M |
| Honeysuckle like to you | O |
| To what's near it clinging true | O |
| Violets surprised in shade | P |
| By their own sweet breath betrayed | P |
| Lagging hawthorn prized the more | Q |
| That it long was waited for | Q |
| These unto your bower I bring | L |
| Gifts of Summer lent to Spring | L |
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| III | A |
| Which are loveliest lilies dight | P |
| In their stateliness of white | P |
| Safe against a touch too rude | P |
| By their cold proud maidenhood | P |
| Or the unreserv d rose | M |
| Careless where it gads or goes | M |
| So it be allowed to cling | L |
| Rioting and revelling | L |
| Rose and lily both I cull | R |
| Iris scarce less beautiful | R |
| Mignonette more sweet than myrrh | S |
| Homely smelling lavender | S |
| Pinks and pansies golden whin | F |
| Constellated jessamine | F |
| Bunches of the maiden's bower | S |
| Tufts of gaudy gillyflower | S |
| Sprays of softening maidenhair | S |
| With my posy mount your stair | S |
| To the chamber where you sit | P |
| Tenderly awaiting it | P |
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| IV | - |
| Then when gorgeous Summer wanes | M |
| Autumn woods and Winter lanes | M |
| Do I haunt that I may dress | M |
| With their lingering loveliness | M |
| Nook and ingle where you be | T |
| Busy with your housewifery | S |
| Ripened reedmace' barren sheaves | M |
| Hardy hornbeam's russet leaves | M |
| Jewels from the spindle tree | S |
| Coral fruited briony | F |
| Crimson haws and purple sloes | M |
| Rubies that were once the rose | M |
| Holly berries warm in snow | F |
| Amber beaded misletoe | P |
| Everything the waning year | S |
| Spares that I may bring you dear | S |
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| V | S |
| But should frost and rifling wind | P |
| Leave not even these behind | P |
| And from out the leafless blast | P |
| I must come to you at last | P |
| Empty handed you would be | S |
| More than all the flowers to me | S |
Alfred Austin
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