On The Purple And White Carnation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCBBDDEE FFGGHHBB IIFFBBD IIBB AAJKLLA MNEEOO NNAPE FFQQRR BBEEBBBBCCE| 'TWAS a bright May morn and each opening flower | A |
| Lay sunning itself in Flora's bower | A |
| Young Love who was fluttering round espied | B |
| The blossoms so gay in their painted pride | B |
| And he gazed on the point of a feathered dart | B |
| For mischief had filled the boy god's heart | B |
| And laughed as his bowstring of silk he drew | C |
| And away that arrow at random flew | C |
| Onward it sped like a ray of light | B |
| And fell on a flower of virgin white | B |
| Which glanced all snowy and pure at the sun | D |
| And wept when his glorious course was run | D |
| Two little drops on its pale leaves lay | E |
| Pure as pearls but with diamond ray | E |
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| Like the tear on Beauty's lid of snow | F |
| Which waits but Compassion to bid it flow | F |
| It rested that dart and its pointed tip | G |
| Sank deep where the bees were wont to sip | G |
| And the sickening flower gazed with grief | H |
| On the purple stains which dimmed each leaf | H |
| And the crystal drops on its leaves that stood | B |
| Blushed with sorrow and shame till they turned to blood | B |
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| It chanced that Flora wandering by | I |
| Beheld her flow'ret droop and die | I |
| And Love laughed in scorn at the flower queen's woe | F |
| As she vainly shook its leaves of snow | F |
| Fled from her lip was the smile of light | B |
| 'Oh who hath worked thee this fell despite | B |
| Thou who did'st harm alas to none | D |
| But joyed'st all day in the beams of the sun ' | - |
| ''Twas Love ' said the flower and a scented sigh | I |
| Loaded the gale that murmured by | I |
| 'Twas Love and the dew drops that blushed on the wound | B |
| Sank slow and sad to the pitying ground | B |
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| ''Twas Love ' said Flora 'accursed be the power | A |
| That could blight the bloom of so fair a flower | A |
| With whispers and smiles he wins Beauty's ears | J |
| But he leaves her nothing save grief and tears | K |
| Ye gods shall he bend with such tyranny still | L |
| The weak and the strong to his wanton will | L |
| No the hearts that he joins may rude discord sever | A |
| Accursed be his power for ever and ever ' | - |
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| She spoke and wept and the echo again | M |
| Repeated the curse but all in vain | N |
| The tyrant laughed as he fluttered away | E |
| Spreading his rainbow wings to the day | E |
| And settling at random his feathered darts | O |
| To spoil sweet flowers or break fond hearts | O |
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| He fled and the queen o'er her flower in vain | N |
| Poured the evening dew and the April rain | N |
| The purple spots on her heart still were | A |
| And she said as she wept her fruitless care | P |
| 'The blight and the stain may be washed away | E |
| But what Love hath ruined must sink in decay ' | - |
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| And she sent it on earth to dwell below | F |
| In the autumn fog and the winter snow | F |
| And even 'tis said on summer eves | Q |
| O'er that sad lost flower she wails and grieves | Q |
| And the drops that by mortals as dew are seen | R |
| Are the tears of the mourning flower queen | R |
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| And when men are gazing with fond delight | B |
| On its varied leaves and call them bright | B |
| And praise the velvet tints and say | E |
| There never was flower more pure and gay | E |
| That flow'ret says as it droops its head | B |
| 'Alas for the day when by love I bled | B |
| When my feathery flowers were pure and white | B |
| And my leaves had no earthly stain or blight | B |
| When no chilling blasts around me blew | C |
| And in Flora's garden of light I grew | C |
| Oh the blight and the stain may be washed away | E |
| But what Love hath ruined must sink in decay ' | - |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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