Celandine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADBE FCFCGHIIGJJ IKLGK| Thinking of her had saddened me at first | A |
| Until I saw the sun on the celandines lie | B |
| Redoubled and she stood up like a flame | C |
| A living thing not what before I nursed | A |
| The shadow I was growing to love almost | D |
| The phantom not the creature with bright eye | B |
| That I had thought never to see once lost | E |
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| She found the celandines of February | F |
| Always before us all Her nature and name | C |
| Were like those flowers and now immediately | F |
| For a short swift eternity back she came | C |
| Beautiful happy simply as when she wore | G |
| Her brightest bloom among the winter hues | H |
| Of all the world and I was happy too | I |
| Seeing the blossoms and the maiden who | I |
| Had seen them with me Februarys before | G |
| Bending to them as in and out she trod | J |
| And laughed with locks sweeping the mossy sod | J |
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| But this was a dream the flowers were not true | I |
| Until I stooped to pluck from the grass there | K |
| One of five petals and I smelt the juice | L |
| Which made me sigh remembering she was no more | G |
| Gone like a never perfectly recalled air | K |
Edward Thomas
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