Ode To The Poppy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDCEFFGEGEHIHJKK LCLMMCNNOOPPQQRST UVTVWWXXEET| Written by a deceased friend | A |
| - | |
| NOT for the promise of the labour'd field | B |
| Not for the good the yellow harvests yield | B |
| I bend at Ceres' shrine | C |
| For dull to human eyes appear | D |
| The golden glories of the year | D |
| Alas a melancholy worship's mine | C |
| I hail the goddess for her scarlet flower | E |
| Thou brilliant weed | F |
| That dost so far exceed | F |
| The richest gifts gay Flora can bestow | G |
| Heedless I pass'd thee in life's morning hour | E |
| Thou comforter of woe | G |
| Till sorrow taught me to confess thy power | E |
| In early days when Fancy cheats | H |
| A varied wreath I wove | I |
| Of laughing Spring's luxuriant sweets | H |
| To deck ungrateful Love | J |
| The rose or thorn my labours crown'd | K |
| As Venus smiled or Venus frown'd | K |
| - | |
| But Love and Joy and all their train are flown | L |
| E'en languid Hope no more is mine | C |
| And I will sing of thee alone | L |
| Unless perchance the attributes of Grief | M |
| The cypress bud and willow leaf | M |
| Their pale funereal foliage blend with thine | C |
| Hail lovely blossom thou canst ease | N |
| The wretched victims of Disease | N |
| Canst close those weary eyes in gentle sleep | O |
| Which never open but to weep | O |
| For oh thy potent charm | P |
| Can agonizing Pain disarm | P |
| Expel imperious Memory from her seat | Q |
| And bid the throbbing heart forget to beat | Q |
| Soul soothing plant that can such blessings give | R |
| By thee the mourner bears to live | S |
| By thee the hopeless die | T |
| Oh ever 'friendly to despair ' | - |
| Might Sorrow's pallid votary dare | U |
| Without a crime that remedy implore | V |
| Which bids the spirit from its bondage fly | T |
| I'd court thy palliative aid no more | V |
| No more I'd sue that thou shouldst spread | W |
| Thy spell around my aching head | W |
| But would conjure thee to impart | X |
| Thy balsam for a broken heart | X |
| And by thy soft Lethean power | E |
| Inestimable flower | E |
| Burst these terrestrial bonds and other regions try | T |
Charlotte Smith
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