Weed Or Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG| 'Tis but a common thing one coldly said | A |
| Nay call it not a flower this little weed | B |
| If plucking it I kill it root and seed | B |
| Better the world were if it lay there dead | A |
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| Ah rather let it live a second cried | C |
| Weed it may be and yet it has its use | D |
| Here in its healing essence its excuse | D |
| For blooming lies and here its only pride | C |
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| Destroy it not another pled Behold | E |
| This tapering leaf this soft and tender green | F |
| Upon my canvas it shall bloom serene | F |
| This tiny chalice fleck of living gold | E |
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| Then one bent over it Ah flowret bright | G |
| For only flowers in this garden grow | H |
| His earth His sunshine made thee o'er thee blow | H |
| His winds frail thing In thee He shows His might | G |
Helen Leah Reed
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