Faded Flowers. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD| My love she sent a flower to me | A |
| Of tender hue and fragrance rare | B |
| And with it came across the sea | A |
| A letter kind as she was fair | B |
| But when her letter met mine eyes | C |
| The flower the little flower was dead | D |
| And ere I touched the tender prize | C |
| The hues were dim the fragrance fled | D |
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| I sent my love a letter too | E |
| In happy hope no more to roam | F |
| I bade her bless the vessel true | E |
| Whose gallant sails should waft me home | F |
| But ere my letter reach'd her hand | G |
| My love my little love was dead | D |
| And when the vessel touch'd the land | G |
| Fair hope for evermore had fled | D |
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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