The Lily Of The Valley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CGHG EIAI JKCK LMNM EOCO| Sweetest of the flowers a blooming | A |
| In the fragrant vernal days | B |
| Is the Lily of the Valley | C |
| With its soft retiring ways | B |
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| Well you chose this humble blossom | D |
| As the nurse's emblem flower | E |
| Who grows more like her ideal | F |
| Every day and every hour | E |
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| Like the Lily of the Valley | C |
| In her honesty and worth | G |
| Ah she blooms in truth and virtue | H |
| In the quiet nooks of earth | G |
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| Tho' she stands erect in honor | E |
| When the heart of mankind bleeds | I |
| Still she hides her own deserving | A |
| In the beauty of her deeds | I |
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| In the silence of the darkness | J |
| Where no eye may see and know | K |
| There her footsteps shod with mercy | C |
| And fleet kindness come and go | K |
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| Not amid the sounds of plaudits | L |
| Nor before the garish day | M |
| Does she shed her soul's sweet perfume | N |
| Does she take her gentle way | M |
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| But alike her ideal flower | E |
| With its honey laden breath | O |
| Still her heart blooms forth its beauty | C |
| In the valley shades of death | O |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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