Syringas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI EJEJKLKL MNMNOPOP QNQNRHRH| The smallest flower beside my path | A |
| In loveliness of bloom | B |
| Some element of comfort hath | A |
| To rid my heart of gloom | B |
| But these of spotless purity | C |
| And fragrant as the rose | D |
| As sad a sight recall to me | C |
| As time shall e'er disclose | D |
| - | |
| Oh there are pictures on the brain | E |
| Sometimes by shadows made | F |
| Till dust is blent with dust again | G |
| That never never fade | F |
| And things supremely bright and fair | H |
| As ever known in life | I |
| Suggest the darkness of despair | H |
| And sanguinary strife | I |
| - | |
| I shut my eyes 'tis all in vain | E |
| The battle field appears | J |
| And one among the thousands slain | E |
| In manhood's brilliant years | J |
| An elbow pillowing his head | K |
| And on the crimson sand | L |
| Syringa blooms distained and dead | K |
| Within his rigid hand | L |
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| Could she foresee who from the stem | M |
| Had plucked that little spray | N |
| Of flowers that he would cherish them | M |
| Unto his dying day | N |
| Give these to M 'tis almost night | O |
| And tell her that I love | P |
| Alas the letter he would write | O |
| Was finished up above | P |
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| And so with each recurring spring | Q |
| On Decoration day | N |
| When to our heroes' graves we bring | Q |
| The blossom wealth of May | N |
| While martial strains are soft and low | R |
| And music seems a prayer | H |
| Unto a hallowed spot I go | R |
| And leave syringas there | H |
Hattie Howard
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