The Wild Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HAHAII HJKJCC LKLKMM| In a waste of yellow sand on the brow of a dreary hill | A |
| A slight little slip of a rose struggled up to the light | B |
| The seed maybe was sown there by the south wind's idle will | A |
| But there it grew and blossomed pale and white | B |
| Only one flower it bore and that was frail and small | C |
| But I think it was brave to try to grow at all | C |
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| In groves of fair Cashmere or sheltered garden of kings | D |
| Sweet with a thousand flowers with birds of paradise | E |
| Fanning her blushing cheeks with their glowing wings | D |
| Praising her deepening bloom with their great bright eyes | F |
| Life would have been a pleasure instead of a toil | G |
| To my pale little patient rose of the sandy soil | G |
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| Did she ever sadly think of her wasted life | H |
| Folding her wan weak hands so helpless and still | A |
| And the great oak by her sheltering glad bird life | H |
| And the thirsty meadows praising the running rill | A |
| She could hear the happy work day song of the busy brook | I |
| While she poor thing could only stand and look | I |
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| Did the wee white rose ever think of her lonely life | H |
| That there were none to care if she tried to grow | J |
| None to care if the cloud that hung in the west | K |
| Should burst and scatter her pale leaves far and low | J |
| Did she ever wish that the heavy cloud would fall | C |
| And hide her so unblest from the sight of all | C |
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| One sky bends o'er rich garden flowers and those | L |
| That dwell in barren soil untended and unblest | K |
| And I think that God was pleased with the small white rose | L |
| That tried so patiently to live and do its best | K |
| That bravely kept its small leaves pure and fair | M |
| On the waste of dreary sand and the desert air | M |
Marietta Holley
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