The Rose-bush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACA ADAD ECEC FCFC GHGH IDID JDJ JJ J CDCD DJDJ JKJK LELE| There was a rose bush in a garden growing | A |
| Its tender leaves unfolding day by day | B |
| The sun looked on and his down going | A |
| Left it amid the starlit dusk of nights of May | B |
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| The dew drop came and kissed it in the gloaming | A |
| It gathered sweetness in the morning hours | C |
| The bee beheld it as he went aroaming | A |
| And thought 'What honey will be hidden in its flowers ' | - |
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| The light grew richer and the days grew long | A |
| The May time deepened into June | D |
| The air was laden with the robin's song | A |
| The light wind touched the leaves and set them atune | D |
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| And now a tiny bud appeared and then another | E |
| Bright promises of radiant flowers | C |
| The breezes whispering told it to each other | E |
| The rose bush heard them in the gladsome hours | C |
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| New Hope awoke and thrilled in all it veins | F |
| Life is so sweet that culminates in flowers | C |
| It smiled and grew in misty summer rains | F |
| And caught the freshness of the evening showers | C |
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| And oft the gardener came and stood beside | G |
| He tended it alway with zealous care | H |
| Watching lest any evil should betide | G |
| Or blight creep o'er the leaves that grew so fair | H |
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| He crushed the buds and dropped them on the ground | I |
| The rose bush felt a chill in every vein | D |
| It drooped as if to hide each bitter wound | I |
| This strange experience was its earliest thought of pain | D |
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| 'Poor little plant ' the gardener thought | J |
| Thou art too young too young to know | D |
| That few buds unto flowers are brought | J |
| It is by pruning thou must grow ' | - |
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| And still the summer smiled and shoned | J |
| And other roses bloomed and died | J |
| 'Mine would more beauteously have blown ' | - |
| The little rose bush sadly sighed | J |
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| Again the gardener sought his flowers | C |
| Where he had watched his treasures blow | D |
| The autumn blast has swept the bowers | C |
| The winds and storms has laid them low | D |
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| Though sad of heart the rose bush still was green | D |
| It lifted up its drooping head | J |
| 'The life that would have filled the buds may still be seen | D |
| 'Tis folded in its heart ' he said | J |
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| He stooped and took it from the ground | J |
| All trembling with its vague alarms | K |
| And quick and tenderly he wrapped it round | J |
| And kindly bore it in his arms | K |
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| And now where soft the sunshine flows | L |
| Within a fair immortal bower | E |
| In all its fragrant beauty blooms the rose | L |
| Its every bud grown into perfect flower | E |
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