Two Roses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG AHAH AAAA| A humble wild rose pink and slender | A |
| Was plucked and placed in a bright bouquet | B |
| Beside a Jacqueminot s royal splendour | A |
| And both in my lady s boudoir lay | B |
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| Said the haughty bud in a tone of scorning | C |
| I wonder why you are called a rose | D |
| Your leaves will fade in a single morning | C |
| No blood of mine in your pale cheek glows | D |
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| Your course green stalk shows dust of the highway | B |
| You have no depths of fragrant bloom | E |
| And what could you learn in a rustic byway | B |
| To fit you to lie in my lady s room | E |
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| If called to adorn her warm white bosom | F |
| What have you to offer for such a place | G |
| Beside my fragrant and splendid blossom | F |
| Ripe with colour and rich with grace | G |
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| Said the sweet wild rose Despite your dower | A |
| Of finer breeding and deeper hue | H |
| Despite your beauty fair high bred flower | A |
| It is I who should lie on her breast not you | H |
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| For small account is your hot house glory | A |
| Beside the knowledge that came to me | A |
| When I heard by the wayside love s old story | A |
| And felt the kiss of the amorous bee | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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