Winter Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJHAH EKLKBDMN OMPMQRMR| The summer queen has many flowers | A |
| To deck her sunny hair | B |
| And trailing grasses pure and sweet | C |
| To scent the heavy air | B |
| And upward through the misty sky | D |
| There is a glory too | E |
| Of floating clouds and rifts of gold | F |
| And depths of smiling blue | E |
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| Yet winter too can boast a wealth | G |
| Of flowers pure and white | H |
| A kingly crown of frosted gems | I |
| A wreath of sparkling light | H |
| So bright and beautiful indeed | J |
| It were a wondrous sight | H |
| To see a world of fragile flowers | A |
| Sprung up within a night | H |
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| And sometimes there are cast'es too | E |
| Of glittering ice and snow | K |
| Piled high upon our window panes | L |
| 'Neath curtains hanging low | K |
| And they are like the castles fair | B |
| Our day dreams build for aye | D |
| A frozen mist that one warm breath | M |
| May quickly drive away | N |
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| And yet how beautiful they are | O |
| These flowers of our breath | M |
| That bloom when not a leaf is left | P |
| To mourn the summer's death | M |
| And oh how wondrous are the things | Q |
| That God has given the earth | R |
| The day that brings to one a death | M |
| Smiles on another's birth | R |
Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
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