The Water Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKKLL MMNNOP QQRRSSThis lovely lily so pure and white | A |
Seems covered o'er with celestial light | A |
As if it grew on the Tree of Life | B |
And not down here in this world of strife | B |
Too pure for earth it now seems to be | C |
My queenly wife it was meant for thee | C |
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Its wax like petals with graceful bend | D |
Drink in the sunbeams as they descend | D |
And lade with fragrance the heated air | E |
As it floats around us everywhere | E |
And the world grows better by its advent | F |
This lovely lily so kindly sent | F |
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It rested once on its crystal bed | G |
Neither wind nor wave occasioned dread | G |
Admired by all as they passed it by | H |
Though the contrast oft produced a sigh | H |
In purer soil than affords this earth | I |
This lovely lily must have had its birth | I |
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Dive down in search where the root is found | J |
In vain you look for the purer ground | J |
The root is fixed in the foulest mud | K |
And from it grows this pure lily bud | K |
While speckled frogs and the slimy eels | L |
Around its roots find their daily meals | L |
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As lilies fair from the foul mud grow | M |
So oft it is with good men below | M |
In daily life they absorb the pure | N |
And the adverse elements endure | N |
And rise through grace to a higher sphere | O |
Their hearts in heaven and their root down here | P |
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Though foul the world where they have their growth | Q |
Unfit the soil and the climate both | Q |
The blood of Christ does their stains remove | R |
His power to keep they all daily prove | R |
As lilies pure are these plants of grace | S |
Though growing now in so foul a place | S |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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