The Lost Embassy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC DEBBAFG HIIJJKK IILMMHHNJNNNOOPPGQQ NNJJRSST| THE lilies lean to the white white rose | A |
| The sweet limes send to the blossomed trees | B |
| Soft kisses borne by the golden bees | B |
| And all the world is alive awake | C |
| And glad to the heart for the summer's sake | C |
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| From her tower window the Princess leant | D |
| Where the white light butterflies came and went | E |
| She dropped soft kisses by twos and threes | B |
| 'White butterflies mine will you carry these | B |
| To my Prince in prison for they who knows | A |
| May break the spell that has held him close | F |
| And wake him and win him to stand up free | G |
| And laugh in the sun with me ' | - |
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| White lilies gold in the golden sun | H |
| White Princess gold in your golden gown | I |
| Far off lies the sad enchanted town | I |
| Bright wings light wings white wings that tire | J |
| Though they carry the flower of the heart's desire | J |
| Will you trust to these too white too slight | K |
| To bring back the fruit of heart's delight | K |
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| All round and about the spell bound town | I |
| The ways are dusty the woods are brown | I |
| There are no green coverts no welcoming flowers | L |
| For little weary butterfly wings | M |
| No dew no lilies no glad live things | M |
| 'Neath the sky of steel and the brazen sun | H |
| White wings kiss laden dropped one by one | H |
| By twos and threes they dropped by the way | N |
| And only one reached the grim gray tower | J |
| Where witched from his kingdom the poor Prince lay | N |
| One poor tired butterfly smirched and gray | N |
| With the dust of the town and the weary way | N |
| And it lit on the Prince's hand and died | O |
| 'Bright wings light wings white wings ' he cried | O |
| 'You only you might have lived and borne | P |
| My prayer to my love in her tower forlorn | P |
| And brought back the kiss that could set me free | G |
| She might have broken the spell that lies | Q |
| On my foolish heart and my foolish eyes | Q |
| But no live butterflies come my way ' | - |
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| The winds are cold and the skies are gray | N |
| And all the lilies died yesterday | N |
| The Princess leans from her steel wrought tower | J |
| To watch for her butterflies hour by hour | J |
| Poor little Princess you watch in vain | R |
| Butterflies die where the green wood browns | S |
| And kisses sent to enchanted towns | S |
| Never come home again | T |
Edith Nesbit
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