Sweet Peas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JKJJL| By helpful fingers taught to twine | A |
| Around its trellis grew | B |
| A delicate and dainty vine | A |
| The bursting bud its blossom sign | A |
| Inlaid with honeyed dew | B |
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| Developing by every art | C |
| To floriculture known | D |
| From tares exempt and kept apart | C |
| Careful as if in some fond heart | C |
| Its legume germs were sown | D |
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| So thriving not for me alone | D |
| Its beauty and perfume | E |
| Ah no to rich perfection grown | D |
| By flower mission loved and known | D |
| In many a darkened room | E |
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| And once in strange and solemn place | F |
| Mid weeping uncontrolled | G |
| Upon the crushed and snowy lace | F |
| I saw them scattered 'round a face | F |
| All pallid still and cold | G |
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| Oh some may choose as gaudy shows | H |
| Those saucy sprigs of pride | I |
| The peony the red red rose | H |
| But give to me the flower that grows | H |
| Petite and pansy eyed | I |
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| Thus meditation on Sweet Peas | J |
| Impels the ardent thought | K |
| Would maidens all were more like these | J |
| With modesty that true heartsease | J |
| Tying the lover's knot | L |
Hattie Howard
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