The Daisy - On Finding One In Bloom On Christmas-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST| There is a flower a little flower | A |
| With silver crest and golden eye | B |
| That welcomes every changing hour | A |
| And weathers every sky | B |
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| The prouder beauties of the field | C |
| In gay but quick succession shine | D |
| Race after race their honors yield | C |
| They flourish and decline | D |
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| But this small flower to Nature dear | E |
| While moons and stars their courses run | F |
| Wreathes the whole circle of the year | E |
| Companion of the Sun | F |
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| It smiles upon the lap of May | G |
| To sultry August spreads its charms | H |
| Lights pale October on his way | G |
| And twines December's arms | H |
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| The purple heath and golden broom | I |
| On moory mountains catch the gale | J |
| O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume | I |
| The violet in the vale | J |
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| But this bold floweret climbs the hill | K |
| Hides in the forest haunts the glen | L |
| Plays on the margin of the rill | K |
| Peeps round the fox's den | L |
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| Within the garden's cultured round | M |
| It shares the sweet carnation's bed | N |
| And blooms on consecrated ground | M |
| In honor of the dead | N |
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| The lambkin crops its crimson gem | O |
| The wild bee murmurs on its breast | P |
| The blue fly bends its pensile stem | O |
| Light o'er the skylark's nest | P |
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| 'Tis Flora's page in every place | Q |
| In every season fresh and fair | R |
| It opens with perennial grace | Q |
| And blossoms everywhere | R |
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| On waste and woodland rock and plain | S |
| Its humble buds unheeded rise | T |
| The Rose has but a summer reign | S |
| The Daisy never dies | T |
James Montgomery
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