Love's Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDED AFGFGDFD AHIIIHEE| I | A |
| Hopes that swell in youthful breasts | B |
| Live not through the waste of time | C |
| Love s rose a host of thorns invests | B |
| Cold ungenial is the clime | C |
| Where its honours blow | D |
| Youth says The purple flowers are mine | E |
| Which die the while they glow | D |
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| II | A |
| Dear the boon to Fancy given | F |
| Retracted whilst it s granted | G |
| Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven | F |
| Although on earth tis planted | G |
| Where its honours blow | D |
| While by earth s slaves the leaves are riven | F |
| Which die the while they glow | D |
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| III | A |
| Age cannot Love destroy | H |
| But perfidy can blast the flower | I |
| Even when in most unwary hour | I |
| It blooms in Fancy s bower | I |
| Age cannot Love destroy | H |
| But perfidy can rend the shrine | E |
| In which its vermeil splendours shine | E |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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