Rose And Roof-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD BB EE AA FF DD GG HH II JJ KL MN OO PP BB QQ EE RS DD| O wayward rose why dost thou wreathe so high | A |
| Wasting thyself in sweet breath'd ecstasy | B |
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| The pulses of the wind my life uplift | C |
| And through my sprays I feel the sunlight sift | C |
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| And all my fibres in a quick consent | D |
| Entwined aspire to fill their heavenward bent | D |
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| I feel the shaking of the far off sea | B |
| And all things growing blend their life with me | B |
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| When men and women on me look there glows | E |
| Within my veins a life not of the rose | E |
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| Then let me grow until I touch the sky | A |
| And let me grow and grow until I die | A |
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| So every year the sweet rose shooteth higher | F |
| And scales the roof upon its wings of fire | F |
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| And pricks the air in lovely discontent | D |
| With thorns that question still of its intent | D |
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| But when it reached the roof tree there it clung | G |
| Nor ever farther up its blossoms flung | G |
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| O wayward rose why hast thou ceased to climb | H |
| Hast thou forgot the ardor of thy prime | H |
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| O hearken thus the rose spray listening | I |
| With what weird music sweet these full hearts ring | I |
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| What mazy ripples of deep eddying sound | J |
| Rise touch the roof tree old and drift around | J |
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| Bearing aloft the burden musical | K |
| Of joys and griefs from human hearts that fall | L |
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| Green stem and fair flush'd circle I will lay | M |
| Along the roof and listen here alway | N |
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| For rose and tree and every leafy growth | O |
| That toward the sky unfolds with spiry blowth | O |
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| No purpose hath save this to breathe a grace | P |
| O'er men and in men's hearts to seek a place | P |
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| Therefore O poet thou who gav'st to me | B |
| The homage of thy humble sympathy | B |
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| No longer vest thy verse in rose leaves frail | Q |
| Let the heart's voice loud through thy paan wail | Q |
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| Lo at my feet the wind of autumn throws | E |
| A hundred turbulent blossoms of the rose | E |
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| Full of the voices of the sea and grove | R |
| And air and full of hidden murmured love | S |
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| And warm with passion through the roof tree sent | D |
| Dew drenched with tears all in one wild gush spent | D |
George Parsons Lathrop
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