To Iris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE AFAFGHGH IJIJKAKA LMLMFNFN| If I might build a palace fair | A |
| With every joy of soul and sense | B |
| And set my heart as sentry there | A |
| To guard your happy innocence | C |
| If I might plant a hedge so strong | D |
| No creeping sorrow could writhe through | E |
| And find my whole life not too long | D |
| To give to make your hedge for you | E |
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| If I could teach the wandering air | A |
| To bring no sounds that were not sweet | F |
| Could teach the earth that only fair | A |
| Untrodden flower deserved your feet | F |
| Would I not tear the secret scroll | G |
| Where all your griefs lie closely curled | H |
| And give your little hand control | G |
| Of all the joys of all the world | H |
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| But ah I have no skill to raise | I |
| The palace teach the hedge to grow | J |
| The common airs blow through your days | I |
| By common ways your dear feet go | J |
| And you must twine of common flowers | K |
| The wreath that happy women wear | A |
| And bear in desolate darkened hours | K |
| The common griefs that all men bear | A |
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| The pinions of my love I fold | L |
| Your little shoulders close about | M |
| Ah could my love keep out the cold | L |
| And shut the creeping sorrows out | M |
| Rough paths will tire your darling feet | F |
| Gray skies will weep your tears above | N |
| While round you still in torment beat | F |
| The impotent wings of mother love | N |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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