The Violet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD EEFG HHII JKLL| BY ELLEN LOUISA TUCKER | A |
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| Why lingerest thou pale violet to see the dying year | B |
| Are Autumn's blasts fit music for thee fragile one to hear | C |
| Will thy clear blue eye upward bent still keep its chastened glow | D |
| Still tearless lift its slender form above the wintry snow | D |
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| Why wilt thou live when none around reflects thy pensive ray | E |
| Thou bloomest here a lonely thing in the clear autumn day | E |
| The tall green trees that shelter thee their last gay dress put on | F |
| There will be nought to shelter thee when their sweet leaves are gone | G |
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| O Violet like thee how blest could I lie down and die | H |
| When summer light is fading and autumn breezes sigh | H |
| When Winter reigned I'd close my eye but wake with bursting Spring | I |
| And live with living nature a pure rejoicing thing | I |
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| I had a sister once who seemed just like a violet | J |
| Her morning sun shone bright and calmly purely set | K |
| When the violets were in their shrouds and Summer in its pride | L |
| She laid her hopes at rest and in the year's rich beauty died | L |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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