Blossom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK F FLLMMNNOOIIPPQRSS TTUUVVJJWW| A LONE rose in a garden burned a quivering flame | A |
| But yesterday blindly from out the bud it came | A |
| And now an envious wind with itching fingers leant | B |
| And touched its lingering beauty and the petals went | C |
| Upon the twilight tossing swift | D |
| Like little dusky boats adrift | D |
| Then in the birth and doom of that brief rose I saw | E |
| The long unrolling of creation's one vast law | E |
| All things were blossom and God thrilled at that flower's birth | F |
| As when from night sheathed chaos broke this blossom earth | F |
| For God no large or little knows | G |
| A universe slept in the rose | G |
| The scattered star mist that dishevelled trails through Space | H |
| Hears the low whisper of the Spring and to its place | H |
| Whirls vastly and its bulk with aching life is torn | I |
| And with a pang that shakes all Space a sun is born | I |
| But God on it bestows the heed | J |
| He gives to any wayside weed | J |
| About it bloom the planets like a pageantry | K |
| Of rival blossoms in a garden galaxy | K |
| They break and wane and wither till upon some earth | F |
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| Faded and chill and shrunken a pallid thing has birth | F |
| And on a world weary with strife | L |
| Creeps forth the efflorescence Life | L |
| Strange vegetations fiercely bloom and fall from sight | M |
| Monsters uncouth are spawned and sink into the night | M |
| Huge mountains blossom white beneath the ocean spray | N |
| Vast tropics glow where once the glacier ice held sway | N |
| Till like a lichen on the stone | O |
| Comes Man bearing a soul unknown | O |
| The lichen spreads and civilisations grow forlorn | I |
| Bloom once and dying blight the place where they were born | I |
| Incomparable unique each in lone splendour burns | P |
| Each bears one perfect grace that nevermore returns | P |
| Ah gone is sculptured Egypt gone | Q |
| The blossom that was Babylon | R |
| The lotus of the East the Grecian lily cold | S |
| Each blossoms only one new beauty to unfold | S |
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| And this rich rose the West that opens now so vast | T |
| Shall tell its message then upon the night be cast | T |
| But still God scatters through the gloom | U |
| New seeds whence nobler flowers shall bloom | U |
| And ons rise and fade and still the petal years | V |
| Fall from the trembling stem of Time that proudly rears | V |
| Space like the last huge blossom of the far thrown seed | J |
| And Space itself shall wither like a trampled weed | J |
| But in the void the Sower still | W |
| Scatters new seed until until | W |
Arthur Henry Adams
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