Roses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABACDD EFGEFEGHH IJKIJIKAA| I entered dutiful God knows | A |
| The room in which I was to sit | B |
| With dreary unbelieving books | C |
| It was surprising I suppose | A |
| To find such happy change in it | B |
| There stood a most celestial rose | A |
| And looked the flower that my love looks | C |
| Who where she turns her smiling face | D |
| Makes heavy earth a hopeful place | D |
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| I blessed the heart that wished me well | E |
| When I had been bereft of much | F |
| And brought such word of beauty back | G |
| I went like one escaping hell | E |
| To drink its fragrance and to touch | F |
| And stroked O ludicrous to tell | E |
| A horrid thing of bric a brac | G |
| A make believe a mockery | H |
| And nothing that a rose should be | H |
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| Red real roses keep a thorn | I |
| And save their loveliness a while | J |
| And in their perfect date unfold | K |
| But you beyond all women born | I |
| Have spent so easily your smile | J |
| That I am not the less forlorn | I |
| Nor these ironic walls less cold | K |
| Because it smiles the chilly rose | A |
| As you are smiling I suppose | A |
John Crowe Ransom
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