The Star And The Water Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJEKE LHMHNBI OBPBQARA SETEUVWV XYZYPHA2H

THE SUN stepped down from his golden throneA
And lay in the silent seaB
And the Lily had folded her satin leavesC
For a sleepy thing was sheB
What is the Lily dreaming ofD
Why crisp the waters blueE
See see she is lifting her varnished lidF
Her white leaves are glistening throughE
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The Rose is cooling his burning cheekG
In the lap of the breathless tideH
The Lily hath sisters fresh and fairI
That would lie by the Rose's sideH
He would love her better than all the restJ
And he would be fond and trueE
But the Lily unfolded her weary lidsK
And looked at the sky so blueE
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Remember remember thou silly oneL
How fast will thy summer glideH
And wilt thou wither a virgin paleM
Or flourish a blooming brideH
'O the rose is old and thorny and coldN
And he lives on earth ' said sheB
'But the Star is fair and he lives in the airI
And he shall my bridegroom be '-
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But what if the stormy cloud should comeO
And ruffle the silver seaB
Would he turn his eye from the distant skyP
To smile on a thing like theeB
O no fair Lily he will not sendQ
One ray from his far off throneA
The winds shall blow and the waves shall flowR
And thou wilt be left aloneA
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There is not a leaf on the mountain topS
Nor a dropp of evening dewE
Nor a golden sand on the sparkling shoreT
Nor a pearl in the waters blueE
That he has not cheered with his fickle smileU
And warmed with his faithless beamV
And will he be true to a pallid flowerW
That floats on the quiet streamV
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Alas for the Lily she would not heedX
But turned to the skies afarY
And bared her breast to the trembling rayZ
That shot from the rising starY
The cloud came over the darkened skyP
And over the waters wideH
She looked in vain through the beating rainA2
And sank in the stormy tideH

Oliver Wendell Holmes



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