Violets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDC EFEEF GHGGH BDBBD IFIIF JKJDK LFLLF| SENT IN A LITTLE BOX | A |
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| LET them lie yes let them lie | B |
| They'll be dead to morrow | C |
| Lift the lid up quietly | D |
| As you'd lift the mystery | D |
| Of a shrouded sorrow | C |
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| Let them lie the fragrant things | E |
| Their sweet souls thus giving | F |
| Let no breezes' ambient wings | E |
| And no useless water springs | E |
| Lure them into living | F |
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| They have lived they live no more | G |
| Nothing can requite them | H |
| For the gentle life they bore | G |
| And up yielded in full store | G |
| While it did delight them | H |
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| Yet poor flowers not sad to die | B |
| In the hand that slew ye | D |
| Did ye leave the open sky | B |
| And the winds that wandered by | B |
| And the bees that knew ye | D |
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| Giving up a small earth place | I |
| And a day of blooming | F |
| Here to lie in narrow space | I |
| Smiling in this sickly face | I |
| This dull air perfuming | F |
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| O my pretty violets dead | J |
| Coffined from all gazes | K |
| We will also smiling shed | J |
| Out of our flowers wither d | D |
| Perfume of sweet praises | K |
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| And as ye for this poor sake | L |
| Love with life are buying | F |
| So I doubt not ONE will make | L |
| All our gathered flowers to take | L |
| Richer scent through dying | F |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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