The Wild Honey-suckle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKLJJ| Fair flower that dost so comely grow | A |
| Hid in this silent dull retreat | B |
| Untouched thy honied blossoms blow | A |
| Unseen thy little branches greet | B |
| No roving foot shall crush thee here | C |
| No busy hand provoke a tear | D |
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| By Nature's self in white arrayed | E |
| She bade thee shun the vulgar eye | F |
| And planted here the gaurdian shade | E |
| And sent soft waters murmuring by | F |
| Thus quietly thy summer goes | G |
| Thy days declinging to repose | G |
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| Smit with those charms that must decay | H |
| I grieve to see your future doom | I |
| They died nor were those flowers more gay | H |
| The flowers that did in Eden bloom | I |
| Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power | J |
| Shall leave no vestige of this flower | J |
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| From morning suns and evenign dews | K |
| At first thy little being came | L |
| If nothing once you nothing lose | K |
| For when you die you are the same | L |
| The space between is but an hour | J |
| The frail duration of a flower | J |
Philip Freneau
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