Wildflowers And Hot-house Plants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH IJIJ KJKJ| 'GOOD Heavens man what a freak of taste | A |
| What blindness to form and feature | B |
| The girl's no beauty and might be placed | A |
| As a hoydenish kind of creature ' | C |
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| No doubt it were more in the current tone | D |
| And the tide today we move in | E |
| If I could but choose me to make my own | D |
| A type of our average woman | F |
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| Like winter blossoms they all unfold | G |
| Their primly maturing glory | H |
| Like pot grown plants in the tepid mould | G |
| Of a window conservatory | H |
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| They sleep by rule and by rule they wake | I |
| Each tendril is taught its duties | J |
| Were I worldly wise yes my choice I'd make | I |
| From our stock of average beauties | J |
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| For worldly wisdom what do I care | K |
| I am sick of its prating mummers | J |
| She breathes of the field and the open air | K |
| And the fragrance of sixteen summers | J |
Henrik Johan Ibsen
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