With A Water-lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBDD BBDD| SEE dear what thy lover brings | A |
| 'Tis the flower with the white wings | A |
| Buoyed upon the quiet stream | B |
| In the spring it lay adream | B |
| - | |
| Homelike to bestow this guest | C |
| Lodge it dear one in thy breast | C |
| There its leaves the secret keep | D |
| Of a wave both still and deep | D |
| - | |
| Child beware the tarn fed stream | B |
| Danger danger there to dream | B |
| Though the sprite pretends to sleep | D |
| And above the lilies peep | D |
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| Child thy bosom is the stream | B |
| Danger danger there to dream | B |
| Though above the lilies peep | D |
| And the sprite pretends to sleep | D |
Henrik Johan Ibsen
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