The Toadstool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJKKDD LLMMNNOO| THERE 's a thing that grows by the fainting flower | A |
| And springs in the shade of the lady's bower | A |
| The lily shrinks and the rose turns pale | B |
| When they feel its breath in the summer gale | B |
| And the tulip curls its leaves in pride | C |
| And the blue eyed violet starts aside | C |
| But the lily may flaunt and the tulip stare | D |
| For what does the honest toadstool care | D |
| She does not glow in a painted vest | E |
| And she never blooms on the maiden's breast | E |
| But she comes as the saintly sisters do | F |
| In a modest suit of a Quaker hue | F |
| And when the stars in the evening skies | G |
| Are weeping dew from their gentle eyes | G |
| The toad comes out from his hermit cell | H |
| The tale of his faithful love to tell | H |
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| Oh there is light in her lover's glance | I |
| That flies to her heart like a silver lance | I |
| His breeches are made of spotted skin | J |
| His jacket 'is tight and his pumps are thin | J |
| In a cloudless night you may hear his song | K |
| As its pensive melody floats along | K |
| And if you will look by the moonlight fair | D |
| The trembling form of the toad is there | D |
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| And he twines his arms round her slender stem | L |
| In the shade of her velvet diadem | L |
| But she turns away in her maiden shame | M |
| And will not breathe on the kindling flame | M |
| He sings at her feet through the live long night | N |
| And creeps to his cave at the break of light | N |
| And whenever he comes to the air above | O |
| His throat is swelling with baffled love | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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