And What Were Roses. Perfume?for I Do Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBA A BBA DBEFBG HH D| and what were roses Perfume for i do | A |
| forget or mere Music mounting unsurely | B |
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| twilight | C |
| but here were something more maturely | B |
| childish more beautiful almost than you | A |
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| Yet if not flower tell me softly who | A |
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| be these haunters of dreams always demurely | B |
| halfsmiling from cool faces moving purely | B |
| with muted steps yet somewhat proudly too | A |
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| are they not ladies ladies of my dreams | D |
| justly touching roses their fingers whitely | B |
| live by | E |
| or better | F |
| queens queens laughing lightly | B |
| crowned with far colors | G |
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| thinking very much | H |
| of nothing and whom dawn loves most to touch | H |
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| wishing by willows bending upon streams | D |
E. E. Cummings
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