A Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHFI JKLK MNOP QRSR TCUC| Amid my treasures once I found | A |
| A simple faded flower | B |
| A flower with all its beauty fled | C |
| The darling of an hour | B |
| - | |
| With bitterness I gazed awhile | D |
| Then flung it from my sight | E |
| For with it all came back to me | F |
| the pain and heedless blight | E |
| - | |
| But moved with pity and regret | G |
| I took it up again | H |
| For oh so long and wearily | F |
| In darkness it had lain | I |
| - | |
| Ah purple pansy once I kissed | J |
| Your dewy petals fair | K |
| For then indeed I had no thought | L |
| Of earthly pain or care | K |
| - | |
| Your faded petals now I touch | M |
| With sacred love and awe | N |
| For never will my heart kneel down | O |
| To earthly will or law | P |
| - | |
| Your velvet beauty still is dear | Q |
| Though faded now you seem | R |
| You drooped and died yet still you are | S |
| The symbol of my dream | R |
| - | |
| Sweet modest flower tinged with gold | T |
| A lesson you have said | C |
| Your purple glory like my love | U |
| Is faded now and dead | C |
Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
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