On A Tuft Of Grass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHCCH IIJKKJ LLCMMC IIANNO PQRSSR MMTIIT| WEAK slender blades of tender green | A |
| With little fragrance little sheen | A |
| What maketh ye so dear to all | B |
| Nor bud nor flower nor fruit have ye | C |
| So tiny it can only be | C |
| 'Mongst fairies ye are counted tall | B |
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| No beauty is in this ah yea | D |
| E'en as I gaze on you to day | D |
| Your hue and fragrance bear me back | E |
| Into the green wide fields of old | F |
| With clear blue air and manifold | F |
| Bright buds and flowers in blossoming track | E |
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| All bent one way like flickering flame | G |
| Each blade caught sunlight as it came | G |
| Then rising saddened into shade | H |
| A changeful wavy harmless sea | C |
| Whose billows none could bitterly | C |
| Reproach with wrecks that they had made | H |
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| No gold ever was buried there | I |
| More rich more precious or more fair | I |
| Than buttercups with yellow gloss | J |
| No ships of mighty forest trees | K |
| E'er foundered in these guiltless seas | K |
| Of grassy waves and tender moss | J |
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| Ah no ah no not guiltless still | L |
| Green waves on meadow and on hill | L |
| Not wholly innocent are ye | C |
| For what dead hopes and loves what graves | M |
| Lie underneath your placid waves | M |
| While breezes kiss them lovingly | C |
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| Calm sleepers with sealed eyes lie there | I |
| They see not neither feel nor care | I |
| If over them the grass be green | A |
| And some sleep here who ne'er knew rest | N |
| Until the grass grew o'er their breast | N |
| And stilled the aching pain within | O |
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| Not all the sorrow man hath known | P |
| Not all the evil he hath done | Q |
| Have ever cast thereon a stain | R |
| It groweth green and fresh and light | S |
| As in the olden garden bright | S |
| Beneath the feet of Eve and Cain | R |
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| It flutters bows and bends and quivers | M |
| And creeps through forests and by rivers | M |
| Each blade with dewy brightness wet | T |
| So soft so quiet and so fair | I |
| We almost dream of sleeping there | I |
| Without or sorrow or regret | T |
Emma Lazarus
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