Flower-de-luce Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF AGAG HIHI JKJK LMMM AAAA HMHM| Beautiful lily dwelling by still rivers | A |
| Or solitary mere | B |
| Or where the sluggish meadow brook delivers | A |
| Its waters to the weir | C |
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| Thou laughest at the mill the whir and worry | D |
| Of spindle and of loom | E |
| And the great wheel that toils amid the hurry | D |
| And rushing of the flame | F |
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| Born in the purple born to joy and pleasance | A |
| Thou dost not toil nor spin | G |
| But makest glad and radiant with thy presence | A |
| The meadow and the lin | G |
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| The wind blows and uplifts thy drooping banner | H |
| And round thee throng and run | I |
| The rushes the green yeomen of thy manor | H |
| The outlaws of the sun | I |
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| The burnished dragon fly is thine attendant | J |
| And tilts against the field | K |
| And down the listed sunbeam rides resplendent | J |
| With steel blue mail and shield | K |
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| Thou art the Iris fair among the fairest | L |
| Who armed with golden rod | M |
| And winged with the celestial azure bearest | M |
| The message of some God | M |
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| Thou art the Muse who far from crowded cities | A |
| Hauntest the sylvan streams | A |
| Playing on pipes of reed the artless ditties | A |
| That come to us as dreams | A |
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| O flower de luce bloom on and let the river | H |
| Linger to kiss thy feet | M |
| O flower of song bloom on and make forever | H |
| The world more fair and sweet | M |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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