To A Faded Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFE GHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMO PQPRSTST| To a violet that faded on my coat at Natchez Miss March th | A |
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| Alas thou lovely floweret wee | B |
| Fate blew a blighting breath | C |
| Upon the delicate form of thee | B |
| Thou'st met untimely death | C |
| Thou blowest blushest nevermore | D |
| To drink the dews of night | E |
| Thy sweet though short lived life is o'er | F |
| Thou seest no more the light | E |
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| 'Twas vain aye vain the selfish strife | G |
| That drooped thy purple crest | H |
| Some swain or maiden took thy life | G |
| To deck a love lorn breast | H |
| Ah floweret wee the God who made | I |
| All in the earth and sky | J |
| Decreed that thou should blow and fade | I |
| All else should live and die | J |
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| Now he who wails the floweret's fate | K |
| And all the rest of man | L |
| Must meet that fate aye soon or late | K |
| And scale their measured span | L |
| We are but flowers that blush and blow | M |
| As flight of years rolls on | N |
| With time and tide's cold ebb and flow | M |
| 'Tis said He's dead and gone | O |
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| For as the maid clips off the stems | P |
| Where once the flowers have been | Q |
| So angels pluck earth's rarest gems | P |
| Immortal souls of men | R |
| The flower fadeth into air | S |
| From whence its life is given | T |
| But man's soul shining rich and rare | S |
| Ascendeth into heaven | T |
Edward Smyth Jones
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