The Marigold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGGHIIJJKK LMNOJJGGPPQQ| When with a serious musing I behold | A |
| The grateful and obsequious marigold | A |
| How duly ev'ry morning she displays | B |
| Her open breast when Titan spreads his rays | B |
| How she observes him in his daily walk | C |
| Still bending towards him her tender stalk | C |
| How when he down declines she droops and mourns | D |
| Bedew'd as 'twere with tears till he returns | E |
| And how she veils her flow'rs when he is gone | F |
| As if she scorned to be looked on | G |
| By an inferior eye or did contemn | G |
| To wait upon a meaner light than him | H |
| When this I meditate methinks the flowers | I |
| Have spirits far more generous than ours | I |
| And give us fair examples to despise | J |
| The servile fawnings and idolatries | J |
| Wherewith we court these earthly things below | K |
| Which merit not the service we bestow | K |
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| But O my God though groveling I appear | L |
| Upon the ground and have a rooting here | M |
| Which hales me downward yet in my desire | N |
| To that which is above me I aspire | O |
| And all my best affections I profess | J |
| To Him that is the sun of righteousness | J |
| Oh keep the morning of His incarnation | G |
| The burning noontide of His bitter passion | G |
| The night of His descending and the height | P |
| Of His ascension ever in my sight | P |
| That imitating Him in what I may | Q |
| I never follow an inferior way | Q |
George Wither
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