An Old Bouquet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG EEE AAA HHH| I opened a long closed drawer to day | A |
| And among the souvenirs stored away | A |
| Were the faded leaves of an old bouquet | A |
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| Those faded leaves were as white as snow | B |
| With a background of green to make them show | B |
| When you gave them to me long years ago | B |
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| They carried me back in a flash of light | C |
| To a perfumed perfect summer night | C |
| And a rider who came on a steed of white | C |
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| I can see it all how you rode down | D |
| Like a knight of old from the dusty town | D |
| With a passionate glow in your eyes of brown | D |
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| Again I stand by the garden gate | E |
| While the golden sun slips low and wait | E |
| And watch your coming my love my fate | E |
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| Young and handsome and debonair | F |
| You leap to my side in the garden there | F |
| And I take your flowers and call them fair | F |
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| Out of the west the glory dies | G |
| As we stand under the sunset skies | G |
| With love in our hearts and love in our eyes | G |
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| Love too tender and love too great | E |
| To die with death or to yield to fate | E |
| But your restless steed tells the hour is late | E |
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| You mount him again and you ride away | A |
| Into the west that is growing gray | A |
| Oh turn the key on that dear bouquet | A |
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| It is dry and faded and I am old | H |
| And the hand that gave it is green with mould | H |
| And the winter of life is cold so cold | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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