The Water Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKKLL MMNNOP QQRRSS

This lovely lily so pure and whiteA
Seems covered o'er with celestial lightA
As if it grew on the Tree of LifeB
And not down here in this world of strifeB
Too pure for earth it now seems to beC
My queenly wife it was meant for theeC
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Its wax like petals with graceful bendD
Drink in the sunbeams as they descendD
And lade with fragrance the heated airE
As it floats around us everywhereE
And the world grows better by its adventF
This lovely lily so kindly sentF
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It rested once on its crystal bedG
Neither wind nor wave occasioned dreadG
Admired by all as they passed it byH
Though the contrast oft produced a sighH
In purer soil than affords this earthI
This lovely lily must have had its birthI
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Dive down in search where the root is foundJ
In vain you look for the purer groundJ
The root is fixed in the foulest mudK
And from it grows this pure lily budK
While speckled frogs and the slimy eelsL
Around its roots find their daily mealsL
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As lilies fair from the foul mud growM
So oft it is with good men belowM
In daily life they absorb the pureN
And the adverse elements endureN
And rise through grace to a higher sphereO
Their hearts in heaven and their root down hereP
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Though foul the world where they have their growthQ
Unfit the soil and the climate bothQ
The blood of Christ does their stains removeR
His power to keep they all daily proveR
As lilies pure are these plants of graceS
Though growing now in so foul a placeS

Joseph Horatio Chant



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