Winter Roses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRS TAUA NVWV| My garden roses long ago | A |
| Have perished from the leaf strewn walks | B |
| Their pale fair sisters smile no more | C |
| Upon the sweet brier stalks | B |
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| Gone with the flower time of my life | D |
| Spring's violets summer's blooming pride | E |
| And Nature's winter and my own | F |
| Stand flowerless side by side | E |
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| So might I yesterday have sung | G |
| To day in bleak December's noon | H |
| Come sweetest fragrance shapes and hues | I |
| The rosy wealth of June | H |
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| Bless the young bands that culled the gift | J |
| And bless the hearts that prompted it | K |
| If undeserved it comes at least | L |
| It seems not all unfit | K |
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| Of old my Quaker ancestors | M |
| Had gifts of forty stripes save one | N |
| To day as many roses crown | O |
| The gray head of their son | N |
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| And with them to my fancy's eye | P |
| The fresh faced givers smiling come | Q |
| And nine and thirty happy girls | R |
| Make glad a lonely room | S |
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| They bring the atmosphere of youth | T |
| The light and warmth of long ago | A |
| Are in my heart and on my cheek | U |
| The airs of morning blow | A |
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| O buds of girlhood yet unblown | N |
| And fairer than the gift ye chose | V |
| For you may years like leaves unfold | W |
| The heart of Sharon's rose | V |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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