On Pressing Some Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON| So they are dead Love when they passed | A |
| From thee to me our fingers met | B |
| O withered darlings of the May | C |
| I feel those fairy fingers yet | B |
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| And for the bliss ye brought me then | D |
| Your faded forms are precious things | E |
| No flowers so fair no buds so sweet | F |
| Shall bloom through all my future springs | E |
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| And so pale ones with hands as soft | G |
| As if I closed a baby's eyes | H |
| I'll lay you in some favorite book | I |
| Made sacred by a poet's sighs | H |
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| Your lips shall press the sweetest song | J |
| The sweetest saddest song I know | K |
| As ye had perished in your pride | L |
| Of some lone bard's melodious woe | K |
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| Oh Love hath love no holier shrine | M |
| Oh heart could love but lend the power | N |
| I'd lay thy crimson pages bare | O |
| And every leaf should fold its flower | N |
Henry Timrod
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