A Song Of The Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFF GGHHIIHH FFJJKKLL HHMM AANNOOJJ PPQQRRST| Why are you weeping ye gentle flowers | A |
| Are ye not blest in your sunny bowers | A |
| Have you startling dreams that make ye weep | B |
| When waking up from your holy sleep | B |
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| Ah knowest thou not we fold at night | C |
| The tears earth drops from her eyelids bright | C |
| Like a loving mother her griefs are born | D |
| Lest her tender nurslings should die ere morn | D |
| And the sweet dew falls in each open cup | E |
| Till the eyes of morn are lifted up | E |
| We unfold our leaves to the sun's bright face | F |
| And close them up at the night's embrace | F |
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| Dost thou ask if grief comes creeping across | G |
| From the poplar bough to the dark green moss | G |
| No round us the sunbeams smile and glow | H |
| Round us the streamlets dance and flow | H |
| And the zephyr comes with its gentle breeze | I |
| To sigh out its life in the young green trees | I |
| And then from the beds where the flowers grow | H |
| Rises a melody soft and low | H |
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| And the glorious rose with her flushing face | F |
| And the fuschia with her form of grace | F |
| The balsam bright and the lupin's crest | J |
| That weaves a roof for the firefly's nest | J |
| The myrtle clusters and dahlia tall | K |
| The jessamine fairest among them all | K |
| And the tremulous lips of the lily's bell | L |
| Join in the music we love so well | L |
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| But startle ye not when the tempests blow | H |
| Have you no dread of a wily foe | H |
| Do you not tremble when the serpents hiss | M |
| Mid leaves that the zephyr alone should kiss | M |
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| Lady the bells of the fainting flowers | A |
| Close at the coming of thunder showers | A |
| The branches and tendrils merrily dance | N |
| At the whirlwind's cry and the lightning's glance | N |
| We dread not to see the snake's back of gold | O |
| Dart through the lilacs or marigold | O |
| For fears that dwell in the human breast | J |
| Find in the heart of flowers no rest | J |
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| We have no fears when we hear thee pass | P |
| Over the fold of the tangled grass | P |
| We have no dread when we hear thee breathe | Q |
| Over the flowers we love to wreathe | Q |
| Nor tremble when night falls from heaven above | R |
| And nature is stillness and earth is love | R |
| We steal from thy keeping when summer is o'er | S |
| And wait thee where flowers can die no more | T |
Harriet Annie Wilkins
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