The Lily Confidante Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE FGCG HCCC IJCJ AKCK CCLC MNLN OPCP QRSR TOTO CUOU| Lily lady of the garden | A |
| Let me press my lip to thine | B |
| Love must tell its story Lily | C |
| Listen thou to mine | B |
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| Two I choose to know the secret | D |
| Thee and yonder wordless flute | E |
| Dragons watch me tender Lily | C |
| And thou must be mute | E |
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| There's a maiden and her name is | F |
| Hist was that a rose leaf fell | G |
| See the rose is listening Lily | C |
| And the rose may tell | G |
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| Lily browed and lily hearted | H |
| She is very dear to me | C |
| Lovely yes if being lovely | C |
| Is resembling thee | C |
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| Six to half a score of summers | I |
| Make the sweetest of the teens | J |
| Not too young to guess dear Lily | C |
| What a lover means | J |
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| Laughing girl and thoughtful woman | A |
| I am puzzled how to woo | K |
| Shall I praise or pique her Lily | C |
| Tell me what to do | K |
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| Silly lover if thy Lily | C |
| Like her sister lilies be | C |
| Thou must woo if thou wouldst wear her | L |
| With a simple plea | C |
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| Love's the lover's only magic | M |
| Truth the very subtlest art | N |
| Love that feigns and lips that flatter | L |
| Win no modest heart | N |
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| Like the dewdrop in my bosom | O |
| Be thy guileless language youth | P |
| Falsehood buyeth falsehood only | C |
| Truth must purchase truth | P |
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| As thou talkest at the fireside | Q |
| With the little children by | R |
| As thou prayest in the darkness | S |
| When thy God is nigh | R |
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| With a speech as chaste and gentle | T |
| And such meanings as become | O |
| Ear of child or ear of angel | T |
| Speak or be thou dumb | O |
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| Woo her thus and she shall give thee | C |
| Of her heart the sinless whole | U |
| All the girl within her bosom | O |
| And her woman's soul | U |
Henry Timrod
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