Once Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCACA DEEEFDFD GHHHIJIG| I SET a lily long ago | A |
| I watched it whiten in the sun | B |
| I loved it well I had but one | B |
| Then summer time was done | B |
| The wind came and the rain | C |
| My lily bent lay low | A |
| Only the night time sees my pain | C |
| Alas my lily long ago | A |
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| I had a rose tree born in May | D |
| I watched it burgeon and grow red | E |
| I breathed the perfume that it shed | E |
| Then summer time had sped | E |
| The frost came with its sleep | F |
| My rose tree died away | D |
| Only the silence hears me weep | F |
| Alas lost rose tree lost lost May | D |
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| The garden's lily blows once more | G |
| The buried rose will wake and climb | H |
| There is no thought of rain and rime | H |
| After next summer time | H |
| But the heart's blooms are weak | I |
| Once dead for ever o'er | J |
| Not night not silence knows me seek | I |
| My joy that waned and blooms no more | G |
Augusta Davies Webster
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