Hollyhocks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJEEKK LLMMIIII| Old fashioned flowers I love them all | A |
| The morning glories on the wall | A |
| The pansies in their patch of shade | B |
| The violets stolen from a glade | B |
| The bleeding hearts and columbine | C |
| Have long been garden friends of mine | C |
| But memory every summer flocks | D |
| About a clump of hollyhocks | D |
| - | |
| The mother loved them years ago | E |
| Beside the fence they used to grow | E |
| And though the garden changed each year | F |
| And certain blooms would disappear | F |
| To give their places in the ground | G |
| To something new that mother found | G |
| Some pretty bloom or rosebush rare | H |
| The hollyhocks were always there | H |
| - | |
| It seems but yesterday to me | I |
| She led me down the yard to see | I |
| The first tall spires with bloom aflame | J |
| And taught me to pronounce their name | J |
| And year by year I watched them grow | E |
| The first flowers I had come to know | E |
| And with the mother dear I'd yearn | K |
| To see the hollyhocks return | K |
| - | |
| The garden of my boyhood days | L |
| With hollyhocks was kept ablaze | L |
| In all my recollections they | M |
| In friendly columns nod and sway | M |
| And when to day their blooms I see | I |
| Always the mother smiles at me | I |
| The mind's bright chambers life unlocks | I |
| Each summer with the hollyhocks | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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