A Bridal In The Bois De Boulogne. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC ADAD EE FAFABB AGAGHH IJKJLL MHMHBB HNHNBB OMOMPP AAAANNHOW the lilacs the lilacs are glowing and blowing | A |
And white through the delicate verdure of May | B |
The blossoming boughs of the hawthorn are showing | A |
Like beautiful brides in their bridal array | B |
With cobwebs for laces and dewdrops for pearls | C |
Fine as a queen's dowry for workaday girls | C |
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In an aisle of Acacias enlaced and enlacing | A |
Where the silvery sunlight tunnels the shade | D |
Where snowflakes of butterflies airily chasing | A |
Each other in trios flash down the arcade | D |
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Arrayed in white muslin the wedded bride | E |
Looks fresh as a daisy the groom by her side | E |
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The guests flitted round her with light hearted laughter | F |
They hunted the slipper they kissed the ring | A |
Of days gone before and of days coming after | F |
They thought of no more than the bird on the wing | A |
Were the loves and the laughter and lilacs of May | B |
With the sunshine above not enough for the day | B |
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And the lilacs the lilacs are blowing and glowing | A |
They pluck them by handfuls and pile them in a mass | G |
And the sap of the Springtide is rising and flowing | A |
Through the veins of the greenwood the blades of the grass | G |
Up up to the last leaf a dance on the tree | H |
It leaps like a fountain abundant and free | H |
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The blackbirds are building their nests in the bushes | I |
And whistle at work as the workpeople do | J |
The trees swing their censers the wind comes in gushes | K |
Of delicate scent mixed of honey and dew | J |
Now loud and now loud through the garrulous trees | L |
A burst of gay music is blown with the breeze | L |
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And the girls and the boys from the faubourgs of Paris | M |
The premature gamins as wise as fourscore | H |
The vain little Margots and the wide awake Harrys | M |
Surprised into childhood grew simple once more | H |
And vied with the cuckoo as shouting at play | B |
They dashed through the thickets and darted away | B |
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Ah fair is the forest's green glimmering splendour | H |
The leaves of the lime tree a network of light | N |
And fringing long aisles of acacia a tender | H |
And delicate veiling of virginal white | N |
Where framed in the gladdening flowers of May | B |
The bride and her bridesmaids beam gladder than they | B |
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They have crowned her brown tresses with hawthorn in blossom | O |
They have made her a necklace of daisies for pearls | M |
They have set the white lily against her white bosom | O |
Enthroned on the grass mid a garland of girls | M |
With the earth for a footstool the sky roof above | P |
She is queen of the Springtide and Lady of Love | P |
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Oh the lilacs the lilacs are glowing and blowing | A |
They pluck them by bushels as blithely they go | A |
Through the green scented dusk where the hawthorn is showing | A |
A luminous whiteness of blossoming snow | A |
And the Sun ere he goes gives the Moon half his light | N |
As a lamp to lead Love on the bridal night | N |
Mathilde Blind
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