Pansies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEEDFFGGHIJKLJ KLH MMENENAAOPPOQQRRSTTS MMUUOPPO QVVQWWXXPYOQQO

When the earliest south winds softly blowA
Over the brown earth and the waning snowA
In the last days of the discrowned MarchB
Before the silver tassels of the larchB
Or any tiniest bud or blade is seenC
Or in the woods the faintest kindling greenC
And all the earth is veiled in azure mistD
Waiting the far off kisses of the sunE
They lift their bright heads shyly one by oneE
And offer each in cups of amethystD
Drops of the honey wine of fairy landF
A brimming beaker poised in either handF
Fit for the revels of King OberonG
With all his royal gold and purple onG
Children of pensive thought and airy fanciesH
Sweeter than any poet's sweetest stanzasI
Though to the sound of eloquent music toldJ
Or by the lips of beauty breathed or sungK
They thrill us with their backward looking glancesL
They bring us to the land that ne'er grows oldJ
They mind us of the days when life was youngK
Nor time had stolen the fire from youth's romancesL
Dear English pansiesH
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While still the hyacinth sleeps on securelyM
And every lily leaf is folded purelyM
Nor any purple crocus hath arisenE
Nor any tulip raised its slender stemN
And burst the earth walls of its winter prisonE
And donned its gold and jewelled diademN
Nor by the brookside in the mossy hollowA
That calls to every truant foot to followA
The cowslip yet hath hung its golden ballO
In the wild and treacherous March weatherP
The pansy and the sunshine come togetherP
The sweetest flower of allO
The sweetest flower that blowsQ
Sweeter than any roseQ
Or that shy blossom opening in the nightR
Its waxen vase of aromatic lightR
A sleepy incense to the winking starsS
Nor yet in summer heatsT
That crisp the city streetsT
Where the spiked mullein grows beside the barsS
In country places and the ox eyed daisyM
Blooms in the meadow grass and brooks are lazyM
And scarcely murmur in the twinkling heatU
When sound of babbling water is so sweetU
Blue asters and the purple orchis tallO
Bend o'er the wimpling wave togetherP
The pansy blooms through all the summer weatherP
The sweetest flower of allO
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The sweetest flower that blowsQ
When all the rest are scattered and departedV
The symbol of the brave and faithful heartedV
Her bright corolla glowsQ
When leaves hang pendant on their withered stalksW
Through all the half deserted garden walksW
And through long autumn nightsX
The merry dancers scale the northern heightsX
And tiny crystal points of frost white fireP
Make brightly scintillant each blade and spireY
Still under shade of shelt'ring wallO
Or under winter's shroud of snowsQ
Undimmed the faithful pansy blowsQ
The sweetest flower of allO

Kate Seymour Maclean



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