How The White Rose Came Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB DEFEDE GHIJGJ KBLBKB| The roses all were pink and red | A |
| Before the Bumble Bee | B |
| A lover bold with cloak of gold | C |
| Came singing merrily | B |
| Along the sunlit ways that led | A |
| From woodland and from lea | B |
| - | |
| He paused beside an opening rose | D |
| The garden's pet and pride | E |
| She burst in flower that very hour | F |
| While wooing zephyrs sighed | E |
| No smile had she for one of those | D |
| And hope within them died | E |
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| The ardent butterfly in vain | G |
| On radiant wings drew near | H |
| The hapless moth in vain grew wroth | I |
| The fair rose leaned to hear | J |
| The deep voiced stranger's low refrain | G |
| That thrilled upon her ear | J |
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| She gave her heart in love's delight | K |
| And let the whole world see | B |
| Alas one day away away | L |
| Sped truant Bumble Bee | B |
| 'Twas then the red rose turned to white | K |
| So was the tale told me | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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