Eve's Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLML ACAC| Eve must have wept to leave her flowers | A |
| And plucked some roots to tell | B |
| Of Eden's happy sinless bowers | A |
| Where she in bliss did dwell | B |
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| Roses and lilies pansies gay | C |
| Violets with azure eyes | D |
| Her favorites must have been for they | C |
| Seem born in paradise | E |
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| And when they drooped did she not sigh | F |
| And kiss their petals fair | G |
| Thinking Alas ye too must die | F |
| And in our sorrow share | G |
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| And then perhaps unto her soul | H |
| This answer sweet was given | I |
| Like you we fade and perish here | J |
| For you we'll bloom in heaven | I |
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| Roses and lilies are the type | K |
| Of him who from above | L |
| The lamb of God gave up his life | M |
| A sacrifice of love | L |
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| He was her hope in those sad hours | A |
| Of blight and sure decay | C |
| The sin that drove her from her flowers | A |
| His blood could wash away | C |
Nannie R. Glass
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