The Treasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCA DDEEED FFGGGF| UNDER our lead we lie | A |
| While the sun and the snow go by | A |
| And our shrouds lie close lie close | B |
| Like the leaves of a shut white rose | C |
| That knows not what summer knows | C |
| Before it is time to die | A |
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| You in the sun up there | D |
| Where the wild thyme scents the air | D |
| Is it warm still and sweet and gay | E |
| Up there in the wide blue day | E |
| Do you pity us shut away | E |
| From the fields where the flowers are fair | D |
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| Pity us here shut in | F |
| In the dark where the flowers begin | F |
| The coins lie light on our eyes | G |
| In our empty hands is the prize | G |
| The treasure that fools and wise | G |
| Are breaking their hearts to win | F |
Edith Nesbit
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