For A Picture Of St. Dorothea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLLI bear a basket lined with grass | A |
I am so light I am so fair | B |
That men must wonder as I pass | A |
And at the basket that I bear | B |
Where in a newly drawn green litter | C |
Sweet flowers I carry sweets for bitter | C |
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Lilies I shew you lilies none | D |
None in Caesar's gardens blow | E |
And a quince in hand not one | D |
Is set upon your boughs below | E |
Not set because their buds not spring | F |
Spring not 'cause world is wintering | F |
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But these were found in the East and South | G |
Where Winter is the clime forgot | H |
The dewdrop on the larkspur's mouth | G |
O should it then be quench egrave d not | H |
In starry water meads they drew | I |
These drops which be they stars or dew | I |
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Had she a quince in hand Yet gaze | J |
Rather it is the sizing moon | K |
Lo link egrave d heavens with milky ways | J |
That was her larkspur row So soon | K |
Sphered so fast sweet soul We see | L |
Nor fruit nor flowers nor Dorothy | L |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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