Flowers By A Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ADAE FGFH HIJI FKFK| Alien blossoms tell me why | A |
| Seek ye such a lonely place | B |
| Thus to bloom and droop and die | A |
| Far away from all your race | B |
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| Wherefore from the sunny bowers | C |
| Where your beauteous kindred bloom | D |
| Have ye come O banished flowers | C |
| Thus to decorate a tomb | D |
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| Mortal dost thou question why | A |
| Thus beside the grave we bloom | D |
| Why we hither come to die | A |
| Aliens from our garden home | E |
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| 'Twas Affection's gentle hand | F |
| Placed us thus her dead so near | G |
| Tis at weeping Love's command | F |
| That we breathe our fragrance here | H |
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| Ask not why we wither here | H |
| Thou who ne'er hast tasted woe | I |
| Who hast never felt the tear | J |
| Of bereaved affection flow | I |
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| Ask not till thy household band | F |
| By death's cruel stroke is riven | K |
| Till some bright bird'scapes thy hand | F |
| Then thy answer will be given | K |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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