The Nuns And The Lilies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEFGGFAHHHHHIHH HH| The lilies in the garden walk | A |
| Are out today | B |
| The nuns all came to look at them | C |
| To look and say | B |
| They wouldn't last to deck the crib | D |
| On Christmas day | B |
| They had outstripped the Holy Child | E |
| And yet at least | F |
| They should have been for Ursula | G |
| Lucy Joan Perpetua | G |
| Have glittered on the altar through some virgin feast | F |
| The lilies in the convent walk | A |
| Are fair to see | H |
| They have forgotten baby Christs | H |
| It seems to me | H |
| They laugh and toss their royal heads | H |
| In ecstasy | H |
| And still they say I must believe | I |
| Like princely churls | H |
| For all your lovely purity | H |
| Catherine Mary Dorothy | H |
| We will not die as altar flowers for dreaming girls | H |
Lesbia Harford
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