Red Carnations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM| One time in Arcadie's fair bowers | A |
| There met a bright immortal band | B |
| To choose their emblems from the flowers | A |
| That made an Eden of that land | B |
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| Sweet Constancy with eyes of hope | C |
| Strayed down the garden path alone | D |
| And gathered sprays of heliotrope | C |
| To place in clusters at her zone | D |
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| True Friendship plucked the ivy green | E |
| Forever fresh forever fair | F |
| Inconstancy with flippant mien | E |
| The fading primrose chose to wear | F |
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| One moment Love the rose paused by | G |
| But Beauty picked it for her hair | F |
| Love paced the garden with a sigh | G |
| He found no fitting emblem there | F |
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| Then suddenly he saw a flame | H |
| A conflagration turned to bloom | I |
| It even put the rose to shame | H |
| Both in its beauty and perfume | I |
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| He watched it and it did not fade | J |
| He plucked it and it brighter grew | K |
| In cold or heat all undismayed | J |
| It kept its fragrance and its hue | K |
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| Here deathless love and passion sleep | L |
| He cried embodied in this flower | M |
| This is the emblem I will keep | L |
| Love wore carnations from that hour | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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