The Jessamine And The Morning-glory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEGG A HIHIJAJADF A KLKLMNMNHH A OGOGPAPAII A QRQRJAJAKK| I | A |
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| On a sheet of silver the morning star lay | B |
| Fresh white as a baby child | C |
| And laughed and leaped in his lissome way | B |
| On my parterre of flowers smiled | C |
| For a morning glory's spiral bud | D |
| Of shell coned tallness slim | E |
| Stood ready to burst her delicate hood | F |
| And bloom on the dawning dim | E |
| A princess royal in purple born | G |
| To beauty and pride in the balmy morn | G |
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| II | A |
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| And she shook her locks at the morning star | H |
| And her raiment scattered wide | I |
| Low laughed at a hollyhock's scimetar | H |
| Its jewels of buds to deride | I |
| The pomegranate near with fingers of flame | J |
| The hot faced geraniums nigh | A |
| Their proud heads bowed to the queenly dame | J |
| For they knew her state was high | A |
| The fuchsia like a bead of blood | D |
| Bashfully blushed in her silvery hood | F |
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| III | A |
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| All wit that this child of the morning light | K |
| Was queen of the morn and them | L |
| That the orient star in his beams of white | K |
| Was her prince in a diadem | L |
| For lavish he showered those pearls that flash | M |
| And cluster the front of her smock | N |
| From his lordly fingers of rays did dash | M |
| Down zephyrs her crib to rock | N |
| But a jessamine pale 'neath the arbor grew | H |
| Meek selfless and sweet and a virgin true | H |
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| IV | A |
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| But the morning glory disdained her birth | O |
| Of her chastity made a scorn | G |
| I marvel she said if thy mother earth | O |
| Was not sick when thou wast born | G |
| Thou art pale as an infant an hour dead | P |
| Wan thing dost weary our eye | A |
| And she weakly laughed and stiffened her head | P |
| And turned to her love i' the sky | A |
| But the jessamine turned to the rose beside | I |
| With a heavy glance and but sadly sighed | I |
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| V | A |
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| And the orient grew to a wealth of bars | Q |
| 'Neath which foam fires churned | R |
| And the princess proud saw her lord of stars | Q |
| In a torrid furnace burned | R |
| And the giant of life with his breath of flame | J |
| Glared down with one red eye | A |
| And 'neath his breath this gorgeous dame | J |
| In her diamonds did wilt and die | A |
| But the jessamine fragrant waxed purer with light | K |
| For my lady's bosom I culled it that night | K |
Madison Julius Cawein
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