Five Fancies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BBBB CBDB EBEB A B BBFB GBGB HIJI KLFL BMBM FFNF A F FBFB MBMF FBFB OBOB FOFO B A FFBBBB A PPBGQB A FRRF A SS A FF A RR TT UU VV| I | A |
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| THE GLADIOLAS | B |
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| As tall as the lily as tall as the rose | B |
| And almost as tall as the hollyhocks | B |
| Ranked breast to breast in sentinel rows | B |
| Stand the gladiola stocks | B |
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| And some are red as the humming bird's blood | C |
| And some are pied as the butterfly race | B |
| And each is shaped like a velvet hood | D |
| Gold lined with delicate lace | B |
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| For you know the goblins that come like musk | E |
| To tumble and romp in the flowers' laps | B |
| When you see big fire fly eyes in the dusk | E |
| Hang there their goblin caps | B |
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| II | A |
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| THE MORNING GLORIES | B |
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| They bloom up the fresh green trellis | B |
| In airy vigorous ease | B |
| And their fragrant sensuous honey | F |
| Is best beloved of the bees | B |
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| Oh the rose knows the dainty secret | G |
| How the morning glory blows | B |
| For the rose told me the secret | G |
| And the jessamine told the rose | B |
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| And the jessamine said at midnight | H |
| Ere the red cock woke and crew | I |
| That the fays of queen Titania | J |
| Came there to bathe in the dew | I |
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| And the merry moonlight glistened | K |
| On wet long yellow hair | L |
| And their feet on the flowers drowsy | F |
| Trod softer than any air | L |
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| And their petticoats gay as bubbles | B |
| They hung up every one | M |
| On the morning glories' tendrils | B |
| Till their moonlight bath were done | M |
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| But the red cock crew too early | F |
| And the fays left hurriedly | F |
| And this is why in the morning | N |
| Their petticoats there you see | F |
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| III | A |
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| THE TIGER LILY | F |
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| A sultan proud and tawny | F |
| At elegant ease he stands | B |
| With his bare throat brown and scrawny | F |
| And his indolent leaf like hands | B |
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| And the eunuch tulips that listen | M |
| In their gaudy turbans so | B |
| With their scimetar leaves that glisten | M |
| Are guards of his seraglio | F |
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| Where sultana roses musky | F |
| Voluptuous in houri charms | B |
| With their bold breasts deep and dusky | F |
| Impatiently wait his arms | B |
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| Tall beautiful sad and slender | O |
| His Greek girl dancing slaves | B |
| For the white limbed lilies tender | O |
| His royal hand he waves | B |
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| While he watches them softly smiling | F |
| His favorite rose that hour | O |
| With a butterfly gallant is wiling | F |
| In her attar scented bower | O |
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| IV | - |
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| VENGEANCE | B |
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| I | A |
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| Let it sink let it sink | F |
| On the pungent petaled pink | F |
| By those poppy puffs | B |
| Fairy fashioned downiness | B |
| Light weak moth in furry dress | B |
| Of white fluffy stuffs | B |
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| II | A |
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| Where the thin light slipping sweet | P |
| Dimples prints of Fairy feet | P |
| On the white rose blooms | B |
| One dim blossom delicate | G |
| Droops a face all pale with hate | Q |
| Dead with sick perfumes | B |
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| III | A |
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| And I read the riddle wove | - |
| In this rose's course of love | - |
| For the fickle pink | F |
| Thou the rose's phantom art | R |
| Stealing to the pink's false heart | R |
| Vampire like to drink | F |
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| V | - |
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| A DEAD LILY | - |
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| I | A |
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| The South had saluted her mouth | S |
| Till her mouth was sweet with the South | S |
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| II | A |
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| And the North with his breathings low | F |
| Made the blood in her veins like his snow | F |
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| III | A |
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| And the West with his smiles and his art | R |
| Poured his honey of life in her heart | R |
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| IV | - |
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| And the East had in whisperings told | T |
| His secrets more precious than gold | T |
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| V | - |
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| So she grew to a beautiful thought | U |
| Which a godhead of love had wrought | U |
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| VI | - |
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| As strange how the power begot it | V |
| As why but to kill it and rot it | V |
Madison Julius Cawein
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