Snapdragon A Riddle For A Flower Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFFGGHIGGGGJJKKLLMM LLNNGGGGOOPPGGQQDDRR SSTT OOUUVVWW| 'Snapdragon' a Riddle for a Flower Book | A |
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| I am rooted in the wall | B |
| Of buttress'd tower or ancient hall | B |
| Prison'd in an art wrought bed | C |
| Cased in mortar cramp'd with lead | C |
| Of a living stock alone | D |
| Brother of the lifeless stone | D |
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| Else unprized I have my worth | E |
| On the spot that gives me birth | E |
| Nature's vast and varied field | F |
| Braver flowers than me will yield | F |
| Bold in form and rich in hue | G |
| Children of a purer dew | G |
| Smiling lips and winning eyes | H |
| Meet for earthly paradise | I |
| Choice are such and yet thou knowest | G |
| Highest he whose lot is lowest | G |
| They proud hearts a home reject | G |
| Framed by human architect | G |
| Humble I can bear to dwell | J |
| Near the pale recluse's cell | J |
| And I spread my crimson bloom | K |
| Mingled with the cloister's gloom | K |
| Life's gay gifts and honours rare | L |
| Flowers of favour win and wear | L |
| Rose of beauty be the queen | M |
| In pleasure's ring and festive scene | M |
| Ivy climb and cluster where | L |
| Lordly oaks vouchsafe a stair | L |
| Vaunt fair Lily stately dame | N |
| Pride of birth and pomp of name | N |
| Miser Crocus starved with cold | G |
| Hide in earth thy timid gold | G |
| Travell'd Dahlia freely boast | G |
| Knowledge brought from foreign coast | G |
| Pleasure wealth birth knowledge power | O |
| These have each an emblem flower | O |
| So for me alone remains | P |
| Lowly thought and cheerful pains | P |
| Be it mine to set restraint | G |
| On roving wish and selfish plaint | G |
| And for man's drear haunts to leave | Q |
| Dewy morn and balmy eve | Q |
| Be it mine the barren stone | D |
| To deck with green life not its own | D |
| So to soften and to grace | R |
| Of human works the rugged face | R |
| Mine the Unseen to display | S |
| In the crowded public way | S |
| Where life's busy arts combine | T |
| To shut out the Hand Divine | T |
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| Ah no more a scentless flower | O |
| By approving Heaven's high power | O |
| Suddenly my leaves exhale | U |
| Fragrance of the Syrian gale | U |
| Ah 'tis timely comfort given | V |
| By the answering breath of Heaven | V |
| May it be then well might I | W |
| In College cloister live and die | W |
John Henry Newman
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