An Anemone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAC DEFEDE GHGHG IJKJI| 'Teach me the wisdom of thy beauty pray | A |
| That being thus wise I may aspire to see | B |
| What beauty is whence why and in what way | A |
| Immortal yet how mortal utterly | B |
| For shrinking loveliness thy brow of day | A |
| Pleads plaintive as a prayer anemone | C |
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| 'Teach me wood wisdom I am petulant | D |
| Thou hast the wildness of a Dryad's eyes | E |
| The shyness of an Oread's wild plant | F |
| Behold the bashful goddess where she lies | E |
| Distinctly delicate inhabitant | D |
| Ambrosial earthed star cousin of the skies | E |
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| 'Teach me thy wisdom for thro' knowing yet | G |
| When I have drunk dull Lethe till each vein | H |
| Thuds full oblivion I shall not forget | G |
| For beauty known is beauty to sustain | H |
| Glad memories with life while mad regret | G |
| And sorrow perish being Lethe slain ' | - |
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| 'Teach thee my beauty being beautiful | I |
| And beauty wise My slight perfections whole | J |
| As world as man in their creation full | K |
| As old a Power's cogitation roll | J |
| Teach thee Presumption thought is young and dull | I |
| Question thy God what God is soul what soul ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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