Fringed Gentians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| Near where I live there is a lake | A |
| As blue as blue can be winds make | A |
| It dance as they go blowing by | B |
| I think it curtseys to the sky | B |
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| It's just a lake of lovely flowers | C |
| And my Mamma says they are ours | C |
| But they are not like those we grow | D |
| To be our very own you know | D |
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| We have a splendid garden there | E |
| Are lots of flowers everywhere | E |
| Roses and pinks and four o'clocks | F |
| And hollyhocks and evening stocks | F |
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| Mamma lets us pick them but never | G |
| Must we pick any gentians ever | G |
| For if we carried them away | H |
| They'd die of homesickness that day | H |
Amy Lowell
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