The Wild Blue-bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH CBCB IJKJ CCC LMF NCOC CEIE FBDB PQEQ RSCE IET DEUE VCE| Came a bouquet from the city | A |
| Fragrant rich and debonair | B |
| Sweet carnation and geraniium | C |
| Heliotrope and roses rare | B |
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| Down beside the crystal river | D |
| Where the moss grown rocks are high | E |
| And the ferns from niche and crevice | F |
| Stretch to greet the azure sky | E |
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| In the chaste October sunlight | G |
| High above the path below | H |
| Grew a tuft of lovely blue bells | I |
| Softly wind swung to and fro | H |
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| Reached a dainty hand to grasp them | C |
| Bore them home with loving care | B |
| Tenderly and proudly placed them | C |
| 'Mid the flowers so sweet and fair | B |
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| But my timid little blue bells | I |
| Children of the leafy wild | J |
| Dazzled by their city sisters | K |
| Turned away and tearful smiled | J |
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| When alone I bent to kiss them | C |
| Pleadingly they sighed to me | C |
| 'Take us when we die we pray thee | C |
| Back beneath the dear old tree ' | - |
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| 'We would sleep where first the sunshine | L |
| Kissed us in the dewy morn | M |
| Where while soft warm zephyrs fanned us | F |
| Leaf and bud and flower were born ' | - |
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| So I bore them when they faded | N |
| Back to where love sighed for them | C |
| Laid them near the ferns and mosses | O |
| 'Neath the dear old parent stem | C |
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| Deeply grieved that all things lovely | C |
| Must so soon forever die | E |
| That upon the gentle blue bells | I |
| Winter's cold deep snow must lie | E |
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| And I half arraigned the goodness | F |
| That made Death king everywhere | B |
| Stretching forth his cruel sceptre | D |
| Lord of sea and earth and air | B |
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| Summer came and all the hillsides | P |
| Wore a shim'ring robe of green | Q |
| And with rifts of sky and cloudlet | E |
| Flashed the river's golden sheen | Q |
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| I was walking the old pathway | R |
| When a tiny shout I hears | S |
| Harken was it elfin fairy | C |
| Or some truant mocking bird | E |
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| No a family of blue bells | I |
| Waved their slender arms on high | E |
| Clapped their tiny arms in triumph | T |
| Crying 'See we did not die ' | - |
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| 'Never more distrust the Master | D |
| Love and Truth his ways attend | E |
| Death is but a darkened portal | U |
| Of a life that ne'er shall end | E |
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| 'Loved ones parted from in anguish | V |
| Your glad eyes again shall see | C |
| Brighter than the hopes you cherished | E |
| Shall the glad fruition be ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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