Tenderflower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEA FGHI ADJDD KKLC MCDC CCCCC CNONP QRQR| By a certain road sprouts a tender Flower | A |
| Thence implanted by Natures untrimmed cause | B |
| Will it grow a fruiting Tree | C |
| Giving Proceeds in yearly spree | C |
| Or plucked by the ignorant hands | D |
| Of pruning Children plying the road | E |
| On cheerless erranderies wither | A |
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| Or neighboured by Thistles thus it proves | F |
| Choked by them to death | G |
| Thus becoming an unreflective effect | H |
| Disproving the planter's Grace | I |
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| Or by the Sun chided to wither | A |
| Or the Rain's pelting hands | D |
| Submerged to the other worlds | J |
| Or carried to unnative lands | D |
| Of inactivities | D |
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| Could this prove the farmer's goal | K |
| Whose toils are never vainfull | K |
| Or give him great delight | L |
| Whose genius is never faulty | C |
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| Or who can bear to look at the sun | M |
| With his native eyes unstopped | C |
| Or bid the sky stop its sweatful toils | D |
| Or its bidder be he less reckoned | C |
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| Or torrents of darkness at night | C |
| Would there be no bid for the day | C |
| Or burning brightness by the day | C |
| Could there be sun at night | C |
| Or its bidder be he less reckoned | C |
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| O woeful day | C |
| Let me by this shade a rest borrow | N |
| Before I to my hut swipe | O |
| Aha Sweetest sweetness in sweats of sorrow | N |
| The birds by this shade lures me sleep | P |
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| Thus has the erstwhile tender Flower grown | Q |
| Giving shade to the tired and groaning | R |
| And shelter for the Birds that flown | Q |
| For its Planter has never been sleeping | R |
Awoke Godswill
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Poet's note: This poem is an affirmation of trust in the Almighty's power to sustain and pilot the live of his creation to great achievements. The poet sees himself as a tenderflower with many obstacles to overcome in order to be able to survive but trusts on his Maker to carry him along through the thorny road of life.
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