To Fairy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN| Do you recall I know you do | A |
| A little gift once made to you | A |
| A simple basket filled with flowers | B |
| All favorites of our Southern bowers | B |
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| One was a snowy myrtle bud | C |
| Another blushed as if with blood | C |
| A third was pink of softest tinge | D |
| Then came a disk with purple fringe | D |
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| You took them with a happy smile | E |
| And nursed them for a little while | E |
| And once or twice perhaps you thought | F |
| Of the fond messages they brought | F |
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| And yet you could not then divine | G |
| The promise in that gift of mine | G |
| In those bright blooms and odors sweet | H |
| I laid this volume at your feet | H |
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| At yours my child who scarcely know | I |
| How much to your dear self I owe | I |
| Too young and innocent as yet | J |
| To guess in what consists the debt | J |
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| Therefore to you henceforth belong | K |
| These Southern asphodels of song | K |
| Less MY creations than your own | L |
| What praise they win are yours alone | L |
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| For here no fancy finds a place | M |
| But is an affluence of your grace | M |
| And when my songs are sweetest then | N |
| A Dream like you hath touched my pen | N |
Henry Timrod
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