The Sundew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDECE FGGFG HIJHI KDELE MNNMN OPPOP QNNQN RQQRQ| A LITTLE marsh plant yellow green | A |
| And pricked at lip with tender red | B |
| Tread close and either way you tread | B |
| Some faint black water jets between | A |
| Lest you should bruise the curious head | B |
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| A live thing maybe who shall know | C |
| The summer knows and suffers it | D |
| For the cool moss is thick and sweet | E |
| Each side and saves the blossom so | C |
| That it lives out the long June heat | E |
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| The deep scent of the heather burns | F |
| About it breathless though it be | G |
| Bow down and worship more than we | G |
| Is the least flower whose life returns | F |
| Least weed renascent in the sea | G |
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| We are vexed and cumbered in earth s sight | H |
| With wants with many memories | I |
| These see their mother what she is | J |
| Glad growing till August leave more bright | H |
| The apple coloured cranberries | I |
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| Wind blows and bleaches the strong grass | K |
| Blown all one way to shelter it | D |
| From trample of strayed kine with feet | E |
| Felt heavier than the moorhen was | L |
| Strayed up past patches of wild wheat | E |
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| You call it sundew how it grows | M |
| If with its colour it have breath | N |
| If life taste sweet to it if death | N |
| Pain its soft petal no man knows | M |
| Man has no sight or sense that saith | N |
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| My sundew grown of gentle days | O |
| In these green miles the spring begun | P |
| Thy growth ere April had half done | P |
| With the soft secret of her ways | O |
| Or June made ready for the sun | P |
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| O red lipped mouth of marsh flower | Q |
| I have a secret halved with thee | N |
| The name that is love s name to me | N |
| Thou knowest and the face of her | Q |
| Who is my festival to see | N |
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| The hard sun as thy petals knew | R |
| Coloured the heavy moss water | Q |
| Thou wert not worth green midsummer | Q |
| Nor fit to live to August blue | R |
| O sundew not remembering her | Q |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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