To A Windflower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDA BBBBBB A ABABAB| I | A |
| - | |
| Teach me the secret of thy loveliness | B |
| That being made wise I may aspire to be | C |
| As beautiful in thought and so express | B |
| Immortal truths to Earth's mortality | C |
| Though to my soul ability be less | B |
| Than 'tis to thee O sweet anemone | D |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Teach me the secret of thy innocence | B |
| That in simplicity I may grow wise | B |
| Asking of Art no other recompense | B |
| Than the approval of her own just eyes | B |
| So may I rise to some fair eminence | B |
| Though less than thine O cousin of the skies | B |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Teach me these things through whose high knowledge I | A |
| When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins | B |
| And brought me home as all are brought to lie | A |
| In that vast house common to serfs and thanes | B |
| I shall not die I shall not utterly die | A |
| For beauty born of beauty that remains | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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