The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK| The Rose was given to man for this | A |
| He sudden seeing it in later years | B |
| Should swift remember Love's first lingering kiss | A |
| And Grief's last lingering tears | C |
| Or being blind should feel its yearning soul | D |
| Knit all its piercing perfume round his own | E |
| Till he should see on memory's ample scroll | D |
| All roses he had known | E |
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| Or being hard perchance his finger tips | F |
| Careless might touch the satin of its cup | G |
| And he should feel a dead babe's budding lips | F |
| To his lips lifted up | G |
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| Or being deaf and smitten with its star | H |
| Should on a sudden almost hear a lark | I |
| Rush singing up the nightingale afar | H |
| Sing through the dew bright dark | I |
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| Or sorrow lost in paths that round and round | J |
| Circle old graves its keen and vital breath | K |
| Should call to him within the yew's bleak bound | J |
| Of Life and not of Death | K |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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