Beautiful Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD DEDE FGFGHIHI JGGGKLKL| Off on the prairie where the balmy air | A |
| Kisses the waving corn | B |
| There lives a farmer with a daughter fair | A |
| Fair as a summer's morn | B |
| She has a nature gentle as a dove | C |
| Pure as the mountain snows | D |
| Say is it strange that everyone should love | C |
| Love such a girl as Rose | D |
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| Beautiful Rose lovely Rose | D |
| Pride of the prairie bower | E |
| Everybody loves her everybody knows | D |
| She is the fairest flower | E |
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| Rose is a lady yet from early dawn | F |
| Labors her skillful hand | G |
| She is the housewife now her mother's gone | F |
| Gone to the better land | G |
| Rose has the beauty father has the gold | H |
| Both will be hers one day | I |
| For she is young while he is growing old | H |
| Old people pass away | I |
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| Clerks from the city plowmen from the field | J |
| Lords from a foreign land | G |
| Each in their turn have very humbly kneeled | G |
| Kneeled for her heart and hand | G |
| But to them all she made the same reply | K |
| Kindly but firmly No | L |
| And none but I can tell the reason why | K |
| Why she should treat them so | L |
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