A Walk In The Shrubbery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCEFEF GHGHIJIKLMLM NOPOQRQRMSMS COCOJFJFTUTU VWVWXYXYVXVX ZGZGA2B2A2B2C2D2VD2| To the Cistus or Rock Rose a beautiful plant whose flowers | A |
| expand and fall off twice in twenty four hours | A |
| THE Florists who have fondly watch'd | B |
| Some curious bulb from hour to hour | C |
| And to ideal charms attach'd | D |
| Derive their glory from a flower | C |
| Or they who lose in crouded rooms | E |
| Spring's tepid suns and balmy air | F |
| And value Flora's fairest blooms | E |
| But in proportion as they're rare | F |
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| Feel not the pensive pleasures known | G |
| To him who thro' the morning mist | H |
| Explores the bowery shrubs new blown | G |
| A moralizing Botanist | H |
| He marks with colours how profuse | I |
| Some are design'd to please the eye | J |
| While beauty some combine with use | I |
| In admirable harmony | K |
| The fruit buds shadow'd red and white | L |
| Amid young leaves of April hue | M |
| Convey sensations of delight | L |
| And promise fruits autumnal too | M |
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| And while the Thrush his home and food | N |
| Hails as the flowering thorns unfold | O |
| And from its trunk of ebon wood | P |
| Rears Cytisus its floating gold | O |
| The Lilac whose tall head discloses | Q |
| Groups of such bright empurpled shade | R |
| And snow globes form'd of elfin roses | Q |
| Seem for exclusive beauty made | R |
| Such too art thou when light anew | M |
| Above the eastern hill is seen | S |
| Thy buds as fearful of the dew | M |
| Still wear their sheltering veil of green | S |
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| But in the next more genial hour | C |
| Thy tender rose shaped cups unfold | O |
| And soon appears the perfect flower | C |
| With ruby spots and threads of gold | O |
| That short and fleeting hour gone by | J |
| And even the slightest breath of air | F |
| Scarce heard among thy leaves to sigh | J |
| Or little bird that flutters there | F |
| Shakes off thy petals thin and frail | T |
| And soon like half congealing snow | U |
| The sport of every wandering gale | T |
| They strew the humid turf below | U |
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| Yet tho' thy gauzy bells fall fast | V |
| Long ere appears the evening crescent | W |
| Another bloom succeeds the last | V |
| As lovely and as evanescent | W |
| Not so the poet's favourite Rose | X |
| She blooms beyond a second day | Y |
| And even some later beauty shews | X |
| Some charm still lingering in decay | Y |
| Thus those who thro' life's path have pass'd | V |
| A path how seldom strewn with flowers | X |
| May have met Friendships formed to last | V |
| Beyond the noonday's golden hours | X |
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| While quickly formed dissolv'd as soon | Z |
| Some warm attachments I have known | G |
| Just flourish for an hour at noon | Z |
| But leave no trace when overblown | G |
| Minds that form these with ardent zeal | A2 |
| Their new connexions fondly cherish | B2 |
| And for a moment keenly feel | A2 |
| Affection doomed as soon to perish | B2 |
| Incapable of Friendship long | C2 |
| Awake to every new impression | D2 |
| Old friends becoming ci devant | V |
| Are still replaced by a Succession | D2 |
Charlotte Smith
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