The Birthday Wreath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAAC DDECCE FFGHHG EEIJJK LLMEEMBlossom and greenness making all | A |
The winter birthday tropical | B |
And the plain Quaker parlors gay | C |
Have gone from bracket stand and wall | A |
We saw them fade and droop and fall | A |
And laid them tenderly away | C |
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White virgin lilies mignonette | D |
Blown rose and pink and violet | D |
A breath of fragrance passing by | E |
Visions of beauty and decay | C |
Colors and shapes that could not stay | C |
The fairest sweetest first to die | E |
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But still this rustic wreath of mine | F |
Of acorned oak and needled pine | F |
And lighter growths of forest lands | G |
Woven and wound with careful pains | H |
And tender thoughts and prayers remains | H |
As when it dropped from love's dear hands | G |
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And not unfitly garlanded | E |
Is he who country born and bred | E |
Welcomes the sylvan ring which gives | I |
A feeling of old summer days | J |
The wild delight of woodland ways | J |
The glory of the autumn leaves | K |
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And if the flowery meed of song | L |
To other bards may well belong | L |
Be his who from the farm field spoke | M |
A word for Freedom when her need | E |
Was not of dulcimer and reed | E |
This Isthmian wreath of pine and oak | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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