Three Songs Of Shattering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DBEB A FGFG HIHI FGFG A BJBK BGBG| I | A |
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| The first rose on my rose tree | B |
| Budded bloomed and shattered | C |
| During sad days when to me | B |
| Nothing mattered | C |
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| Grief of grief has drained me clean | D |
| Still it seems a pity | B |
| No one saw it must have been | E |
| Very pretty | B |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Let the little birds sing | F |
| Let the little lambs play | G |
| Spring is here and so 'tis spring | F |
| But not in the old way | G |
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| I recall a place | H |
| Where a plum tree grew | I |
| There you lifted up your face | H |
| And blossoms covered you | I |
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| If the little birds sing | F |
| And the little lambs play | G |
| Spring is here and so 'tis spring | F |
| But not in the old way | G |
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| III | A |
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| All the dog wood blossoms are underneath the tree | B |
| Ere spring was going ah spring is gone | J |
| And there comes no summer to the like of you and me | B |
| Blossom time is early but no fruit sets on | K |
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| All the dog wood blossoms are underneath the tree | B |
| Browned at the edges turned in a day | G |
| And I would with all my heart they trimmed a mound for me | B |
| And weeds were tall on all the paths that led that way | G |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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