The Golden Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JKJKALAL MNMNJOJO PQPRSTST| When Advent dawns with lessening days | A |
| While earth awaits the angels' hymn | B |
| When bare as branching coral sways | A |
| In whistling winds each leafless limb | B |
| When spring is but a spendthrift's dream | C |
| And summer's wealth a wasted dower | D |
| Nor dews nor sunshine may redeem | C |
| Then autumn coins his Golden Flower | E |
| - | |
| Soft was the violet's vernal hue | F |
| Fresh was the rose's morning red | G |
| Full orbed the stately dahlia grew | F |
| All gone their short lived splendors shed | G |
| The shadows lengthening stretch at noon | H |
| The fields are stripped the groves are dumb | I |
| The frost flowers greet the icy moon | H |
| Then blooms the bright chrysanthemum | I |
| - | |
| The stiffening turf is white with snow | J |
| Yet still its radiant disks are seen | K |
| Where soon the hallowed morn will show | J |
| The wreath and cross of Christmas green | K |
| As if in autumn's dying days | A |
| It heard the heavenly song afar | L |
| And opened all its glowing rays | A |
| The herald lamp of Bethlehem's star | L |
| - | |
| Orphan of summer kindly sent | M |
| To cheer the fading year's decline | N |
| In all that pitying Heaven has lent | M |
| No fairer pledge of hope than thine | N |
| Yes June lies hid beneath the snow | J |
| And winter's unborn heir shall claim | O |
| For every seed that sleeps below | J |
| A spark that kindles into flame | O |
| - | |
| Thy smile the scowl of winter braves | P |
| Last of the bright robed flowery train | Q |
| Soft sighing o'er the garden graves | P |
| Farewell farewell we meet again | R |
| So may life's chill November bring | S |
| Hope's golden flower the last of all | T |
| Before we hear the angels sing | S |
| Where blossoms never fade and fall | T |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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