A Stained Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHEH BIJI KBJB GLKL KMKM NLOL HBPB JQJQ KRDR GBFB FEBE| Some lilies grew by a brook side | A |
| Tall and white and cold | B |
| And lifted up to the sunshine | C |
| Their great red hearts of gold | B |
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| And near to their bed grew mosses | D |
| rank vines and flowers small | E |
| And loathsome weeds and thistles | F |
| And the sunlight warmed them all | E |
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| Anon the proud white lilies | G |
| Were gathered one by one | H |
| Each to crown a festal | E |
| Rarest under the sun | H |
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| One lily stooped to the brooklet | B |
| Her face she knew was fair | I |
| And the face of flowing water | J |
| Mirrored her image there | I |
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| A hand upraised in envy | K |
| Or carelessness or jest | B |
| Flung from the turbid water | J |
| Mud on the lily's breast | B |
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| And all the proud white lilies | G |
| Turned their faces away | L |
| And nobody plucked that lily | K |
| And day and night and day | L |
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| She wept for her ruined beauty | K |
| And the dew drops and the rain | M |
| Touched with her tears in pity | K |
| Fell on the muddy stain | M |
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| Still stood she in her grieving | N |
| Day and night and day | L |
| Nor tears nor dew nor rain drops | O |
| Could fade the stain away | L |
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| Pining in desolation | H |
| Shunned by each of her kind | B |
| Sought she a bitter solace | P |
| In creatures of a coarser mind | B |
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| But the breath of the nettle stung her | J |
| And the thistle's rude embrace | Q |
| Burned her sensitive nature | J |
| And scarred the fair stained face | Q |
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| Lower drooped the lily | K |
| And died at the feet of the weeds | R |
| And only the tender mosses | D |
| Ministered to her needs | R |
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| And still the tall while lilies | G |
| Stand as cold and proud | B |
| And still the weeds and thistles | F |
| Against the lilies crowd | B |
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| Alike the same warm sunbeams | F |
| On weed and flower fall | E |
| Alike by the same soil nourished | B |
| And the great God made them all | E |
Madge Morris Wagner
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