You Want A Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDCAEEFFGHHGGA| You want a lily | A |
| And you plead with me | A |
| 'Give me my lily back ' | B |
| I went to see | A |
| A friend last night and on her mantelshelf | C |
| I saw some lilies | D |
| Image of myself | C |
| And most unlike your dream of purity | A |
| They had been small green lilies never white | E |
| For man's delight | E |
| In their most blissful hours | F |
| But now the flowers | F |
| Had shrivelled and instead | G |
| Shone spikes of seeds | H |
| Burned spikes of seeds | H |
| Burned red | G |
| As love and death and fierce futurity | G |
| There's this much of the lily left in me | A |
Lesbia Harford
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