The Wild Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDAE FGDGFHFHIHIJ KLLKJMMHHHNHHNOHO| High climbs June's wild rose | A |
| Her bush all blooms in a swarm | B |
| And swift from the bud she blows | A |
| In a day when the wooer is warm | B |
| Frank to receive and give | C |
| Her bosom is open to bee and sun | D |
| Pride she has none | D |
| Nor shame she knows | A |
| Happy to live | E |
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| Unlike those of the garden nigh | F |
| Her queenly sisters enthroned by art | G |
| Loosening petals one by one | D |
| To the fiery Passion's dart | G |
| Superbly shy | F |
| For them in some glory of hair | H |
| Or nest of the heaving mounds to lie | F |
| Or path of the bride bestrew | H |
| Ever are they the theme for song | I |
| But nought of that is her share | H |
| Hardly from wayfarers tramping along | I |
| A glance they care not to renew | J |
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| And she at a word of the claims of kin | K |
| Shrinks to the level of roads and meads | L |
| She is only a plain princess of the weeds | L |
| As an outcast witless of sin | K |
| Much disregarded save by the few | J |
| Who love her that has not a spot of deceit | M |
| No promise of sweet beyond sweet | M |
| Often descending to sour | H |
| On any fair breast she would die in an hour | H |
| Praises she scarce could bear | H |
| Were any wild poet to praise | N |
| Her aim is to rise into light and air | H |
| One of the darlings of Earth no more | H |
| And little it seems in the dusty ways | N |
| Unless to the grasses nodding beneath | O |
| The bird clapping wings to soar | H |
| The clouds of an evetide's wreath | O |
George Meredith
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