The Pressed Gentian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEF GGHHIIJJ KKEELLMM GGHHNNMM| The time of gifts has come again | A |
| And on my northern window pane | B |
| Outlined against the day's brief light | C |
| A Christmas token hangs in sight | C |
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| The wayside travellers as they pass | D |
| Mark the gray disk of clouded glass | D |
| And the dull blankness seems perchance | E |
| Folly to their wise ignorance | F |
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| They cannot from their outlook see | G |
| The perfect grace it hath for me | G |
| For there the flower whose fringes through | H |
| The frosty breath of autumn blew | H |
| Turns from without its face of bloom | I |
| To the warm tropic of my room | I |
| As fair as when beside its brook | J |
| The hue of bending skies it took | J |
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| So from the trodden ways of earth | K |
| Seem some sweet souls who veil their worth | K |
| And offer to the careless glance | E |
| The clouding gray of circumstance | E |
| They blossom best where hearth fires burn | L |
| To loving eyes alone they turn | L |
| The flowers of inward grace that hide | M |
| Their beauty from the world outside | M |
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| But deeper meanings come to me | G |
| My half immortal flower from thee | G |
| Man judges from a partial view | H |
| None ever yet his brother knew | H |
| The Eternal Eye that sees the whole | N |
| May better read the darkened soul | N |
| And find to outward sense denied | M |
| The flower upon its inmost side | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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