The Wild Rose And The Snowdrop Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABABCC BDCDBBCBC EEFFGGHH BIIBJJCCKKLL MMBBBNEBNEOENPPQR| The Snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers | A |
| It lives and dies upon its bed of snows | B |
| And like a thought of spring it comes and goes | B |
| Hanging its head beside our leafless bowers | A |
| The sun's betrothing kiss it never knows | B |
| Nor all the glowing joy of golden showers | A |
| But ever in a placid pure repose | B |
| More like a spirit with its look serene | C |
| Droops its pale cheek veined thro' with infant green | C |
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| Queen of her sisters is the sweet Wild Rose | B |
| Sprung from the earnest sun and ripe young June | D |
| The year's own darling and the Summer's Queen | C |
| Lustrous as the new throned crescent moon | D |
| Much of that early prophet look she shows | B |
| Mixed with her fair espoused blush which glows | B |
| As if the ethereal fairy blood were seen | C |
| Like a soft evening over sunset snows | B |
| Half twilight violet shade half crimson sheen | C |
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| Twin born are both in beauteousness most fair | E |
| In all that glads the eye and charms the air | E |
| In all that wakes emotions in the mind | F |
| And sows sweet sympathies for human kind | F |
| Twin born albeit their seasons are apart | G |
| They bloom together in the thoughtful heart | G |
| Fair symbols of the marvels of our state | H |
| Mute speakers of the oracles of fate | H |
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| For each fulfilling nature's law fulfils | B |
| Itself and its own aspirations pure | I |
| Living and dying letting faith ensure | I |
| New life when deathless Spring shall touch the hills | B |
| Each perfect in its place and each content | J |
| With that perfection which its being meant | J |
| Divided not by months that intervene | C |
| But linked by all the flowers that bud between | C |
| Forever smiling thro' its season brief | K |
| The one in glory and the one in grief | K |
| Forever painting to our museful sight | L |
| How lowlihead and loveliness unite | L |
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| Born from the first blind yearning of the earth | M |
| To be a mother and give happy birth | M |
| Ere yet the northern sun such rapture brings | B |
| Lo from her virgin breast the Snowdrop springs | B |
| And ere the snows have melted from the grass | B |
| And not a strip of greensward doth appear | N |
| Save the faint prophecy its cheeks declare | E |
| Alone unkissed unloved behold it pass | B |
| While in the ripe enthronement of the year | N |
| Whispering the breeze and wedding the rich air | E |
| With her so sweet delicious bridal breath | O |
| Odorous and exquisite beyond compare | E |
| And starr'd with dews upon her forehead clear | N |
| Fresh hearted as a Maiden Queen should be | P |
| Who takes the land's devotion as her fee | P |
| The Wild Rose blooms all summer for her dower | Q |
| Nature's most beautiful and perfect flower | R |
George Meredith
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