The Poison-flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEFFE GAHHAIJKKJ ILMMLJNOON| IIN the evergreen shade of an Austral wood | A |
| Where the long branches laced above | B |
| Through which all day it seemed | C |
| The sweet sunbeams down gleamed | C |
| Like the rays of a young mother's love | B |
| When she hides her glad face with her hands and peeps | D |
| At the youngling that crows on her knee | E |
| 'Neath such ray shivered shade | F |
| In a banksia glade | F |
| Was this flower first shown to me | E |
| - | |
| A rich pansy it was with a small white lip | G |
| And a wonderful purple hood | A |
| And your eye caught the sheen | H |
| Of its leaves parrot green | H |
| Down the dim gothic aisles of the wood | A |
| And its foliage rich on the moistureless sand | I |
| Made you long for its odorous breath | J |
| But ah 'twas to take | K |
| To your bosom a snake | K |
| For its pestilent fragrance was death | J |
| - | |
| And I saw it again in a far northern land | I |
| Not a pansy not purple and white | L |
| Yet in beauteous guise | M |
| Did this poison plant rise | M |
| Fair and fatal again to my sight | L |
| And men longed for her kiss and her odorous breath | J |
| When no friend was beside them to tell | N |
| That to kiss was to die | O |
| That her truth was a lie | O |
| And her beauty a soul killing spell | N |
John Boyle O'reilly
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