For A Picture Of St. Dorothea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL| I 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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