Flower O' The Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDC EEDDE BBFFB| The laggard year is now at prime | A |
| And primrose time is daffodil time | A |
| Where do the boys delay What tether | B |
| Hinders them from the heavenly weather | B |
| From violet time and cowslip time | A |
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| Why do they keep the house so late | C |
| The sweet o' the year is at the gate | C |
| And hear the cuckoo calling saying | D |
| Up slug a bed 'Tis time for Maying | D |
| The cuckoo calling early and late | C |
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| They have stolen away before the dawn | E |
| No print in the May dew on the lawn | E |
| Betrays the way their light feet taking | D |
| Set not the quaking grass to shaking | D |
| Running so light foot in the dawn | E |
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| The primrose and the daffodil weather | B |
| Is here and cowslips troop together | B |
| The lambs frolic in pastures gold | F |
| But since they come not it is cold | F |
| Cold the primrose and daffodil weather | B |
Katharine Tynan
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