To Daisies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDBEFEGGHH DDIIIDFFDFDDDJDJ DDEDEDKDLDLDLDD MNNGCGDMCOOPQPMQAh drops of gold in whitening flame | A |
Burning we know your lovely name | A |
Daisies that little children pull | B |
Like all weak things over the strong | C |
Ye do not know your power for wrong | C |
And much abuse your feebleness | D |
Daisies that little children pull | B |
As ye are weak be merciful | E |
O hide your eyes they are to me | F |
Beautiful insupportably | E |
Or be but conscious ye are fair | G |
And I your loveliness could bear | G |
But being fair so without art | H |
Ye vex the silted memories of my heart | H |
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As a pale ghost yearning strays | D |
With sundered gaze | D |
'Mid corporal presences that are | I |
To it impalpable such a bar | I |
Sets you more distant than the morning star | I |
Such wonder is on you and amaze | D |
I look and marvel if I be | F |
Indeed the phantom or are ye | F |
The light is on your innocence | D |
Which fell from me | F |
The fields ye still inhabit whence | D |
My world acquainted treading strays | D |
The country where I did commence | D |
And though ye shine to me so near | J |
So close to gross and visible sense | D |
Between us lies impassable year on year | J |
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To other time and far off place | D |
Belongs your beauty silent thus | D |
Though to other naught you tell | E |
To me your ranks are rumorous | D |
Of an ancient miracle | E |
Vain does my touch your petals graze | D |
I touch you not and though ye blossom here | K |
Your roots are fast in alienated days | D |
Ye there are anchored while Time's stream | L |
Has swept me past them your white ways | D |
And infantile delights do seem | L |
To look in on me like a face | D |
Dead and sweet come back through dream | L |
With tears because for old embrace | D |
It has no arms | D |
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These hands did toy | M |
Children with you when I was child | N |
And in each other's eyes we smiled | N |
Not yours not yours the grievous fair | G |
Apparelling | C |
With which you wet mine eyes you wear | G |
Ah me the garment of the grace | D |
I wove you when I was a boy | M |
O mine and not the year's your stolen Spring | C |
And since ye wear it | O |
Hide your sweet selves I cannot bear it | O |
For when ye break the cloven earth | P |
With your young laughter and endearment | Q |
No blossomy carillon 'tis of mirth | P |
To me I see my slaughtered joy | M |
Bursting its cerement | Q |
Francis Thompson
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