The Mossrose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AAAA BBCC DDBB AABB| Walking to day in your garden O gracious lady | A |
| Little you thought as you turned in that alley remote and shady | A |
| And gave me a rose and asked if I knew its savour | B |
| The old world scent of the mossrose flower of a bygone favour | B |
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| Little you thought as you waited the word of appraisement | A |
| Laughing at first and then amazed at my amazement | A |
| That the rose you gave was a gift already cherished | A |
| And the garden whence you plucked it a garden long perished | A |
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| But I I saw that garden with its one treasure | B |
| The tiny mossrose tiny even by childhood's measure | B |
| And the long morning shadow of the dusty laurel | C |
| And a boy and a girl beneath it flushed with a childish quarrel | C |
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| She wept for her one little bud but he outreaching | D |
| The hand of brotherly right would take it for all her beseeching | D |
| And she flung her arms about him and gave like a sister | B |
| And laughed at her own tears and wept again when he kissed her | B |
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| So the rose is mine long since and whenever I find it | A |
| And drink again the sharp sweet scent of the moss behind it | A |
| I remember the tears of a child and her love and her laughter | B |
| And the morning shadows of youth and the night that fell thereafter | B |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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