With April Arbutus, To A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADDAEEFFGGHHEEI IJKKJ| Fairer than we the woods of May | A |
| Yet sweeter blossoms do not grow | B |
| Than these we send you from our snow | B |
| Cramped are their stems by winter's cold | C |
| And stained their leaves with last year's mould | C |
| For these are flowers which fought their way | A |
| Through ice and cold in sun and air | D |
| With all a soul might do and dare | D |
| Hope that outlives a world's decay | A |
| Enduring faith that will not die | E |
| And love that gives not knowing why | E |
| Therefore we send them unto you | F |
| And if they are not all your due | F |
| Once they have looked into your face | G |
| Your graciousness will give them place | G |
| You know they were not born to bloom | H |
| Like roses in a crowded room | H |
| For though courageous they are shy | E |
| Loving but one sweet hand and eye | E |
| Ah should you take them to the rest | I |
| The warmth the shelter of your breast | I |
| Since on the bleak | J |
| And frozen bosom of our snows | K |
| They dared to smile on yours who knows | K |
| But that they might not dare to speak | J |
Arthur Sherburne Hardy
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