Wild Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDCDFFFGHHFFHHF FIIJIJKLLKLMMNOOPPQQ RFSTSFUUUTVFFWWV VXXYZFFA2A2B2C2D2D2E 2E2F2LE2E2G2H2| Content Primroses | A |
| With hearts at rest in your thick leaves' soft care | B |
| Peeping as from his mother's lap the child | C |
| Who courts shy shelter from his own open air | B |
| Hanging Harebell | D |
| Whose blue heaven to no wanderer ever closes | E |
| Though thou still lookest earthward from thy domed cell | D |
| Fluttering wild | C |
| Anemone so well | D |
| Named of the Wind to whom thou fettered free | F |
| Yieldest thee helpless wilfully | F |
| With Take me or leave me | F |
| Sweet Wind I am thine own Anemone | G |
| Thirsty Arum ever dreaming | H |
| Of lakes in wildernesses gleaming | H |
| Fire winged Pimpernel | F |
| Communing with some hidden well | F |
| And secrets with the sun god holding | H |
| At fixed hour folding and unfolding | H |
| How is it with you children all | F |
| When human children on you fall | F |
| Gather you in eager haste | I |
| Spoil your plenty with their waste | I |
| Fill and fill their dropping hands | J |
| Feel you hurtfully disgraced | I |
| By their injurious demands | J |
| Do you know them from afar | K |
| Shuddering at their merry hum | L |
| Growing faint as near they come | L |
| Blind and deaf they think you are | K |
| Is it only ye are dumb | L |
| You alive at least I think | M |
| Trembling almost on the brink | M |
| Of our lonely consciousness | N |
| If it be so | O |
| Take this comfort for your woe | O |
| For the breaking of your rest | P |
| For the tearing in your breast | P |
| For the blotting of the sun | Q |
| For the death too soon begun | Q |
| For all else beyond redress | R |
| Or what seemeth so to be | F |
| That the children's wonder springs | S |
| Bubble high at sight of you | T |
| Lovely lowly common things | S |
| In you more than you they see | F |
| Take this too that walking out | U |
| Looking fearlessly about | U |
| Ye rebuke our manhood's doubt | U |
| And our childhood's faith renew | T |
| So that we with old age nigh | V |
| Seeing you alive and well | F |
| Out of winter's crucible | F |
| Hearing you from graveyard crept | W |
| Tell us that ye only slept | W |
| Think we die not though we die | V |
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| Thus ye die not though ye die | V |
| Only yield your being up | X |
| Like a nectar holding cup | X |
| Deaf ye give to them that hear | Y |
| With a greatness lovely dear | Z |
| Blind ye give to them that see | F |
| Poor but bounteous royally | F |
| Lowly servants to the higher | A2 |
| Burning upwards in the fire | A2 |
| Of Nature's endless sacrifice | B2 |
| In great Life's ascent ye rise | C2 |
| Leave the lowly earth behind | D2 |
| Pass into the human mind | D2 |
| Pass with it up into God | E2 |
| Whence ye came though through the clod | E2 |
| Pass and find yourselves at home | F2 |
| Where but life can go and come | L |
| Where all life is in its nest | E2 |
| At loving one with holy Best | E2 |
| Who knows with shadowy dawning sense | G2 |
| Of a past age long somnolence | H2 |
George Macdonald
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