Sweet Peas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JKJJLBy 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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