Flower-life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDB EEFDDDF GGHIIIH BBGJJJG KKLMMML DDNOOON IIJPPPJ| I think that next to your sweet eyes | A |
| And pleasant books and starry skies | A |
| I love the world of flowers | B |
| Less for their beauty of a day | C |
| Than for the tender things they say | C |
| And for a creed I've held alway | D |
| That they are sentient powers | B |
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| It may be matter for a smile | E |
| And I laugh secretly the while | E |
| I speak the fancy out | F |
| But that they love and that they woo | D |
| And that they often marry too | D |
| And do as noisier creatures do | D |
| I've not the faintest doubt | F |
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| And so I cannot deem it right | G |
| To take them from the glad sunlight | G |
| As I have sometimes dared | H |
| Though not without an anxious sigh | I |
| Lest this should break some gentle tie | I |
| Some covenant of friendship I | I |
| Had better far have spared | H |
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| And when in wild or thoughtless hours | B |
| My hand hath crushed the tiniest flowers | B |
| I ne'er could shut from sight | G |
| The corpses of the tender things | J |
| With other drear imaginings | J |
| And little angel flowers with wings | J |
| Would haunt me through the night | G |
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| Oh say you friend the creed is fraught | K |
| With sad and even with painful thought | K |
| Nor could you bear to know | L |
| That such capacities belong | M |
| To creatures helpless against wrong | M |
| At once too weak to fly the strong | M |
| Or front the feeblest foe | L |
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| So be it always then with you | D |
| So be it whether false or true | D |
| I press my faith on none | N |
| If other fancies please you more | O |
| The flowers shall blossom as before | O |
| Dear as the Sibyl leaves of yore | O |
| But senseless every one | N |
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| Yet though I give you no reply | I |
| It were not hard to justify | I |
| My creed to partial ears | J |
| But conscious of the cruel part | P |
| My rhymes would flow with faltering art | P |
| I could not plead against your heart | P |
| Nor reason with your tears | J |
Henry Timrod
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