The Magic Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DBDB BDEEFFDGGBBBBBHHIJ KK| You bear a flower in your hand | A |
| You softly take it through the air | B |
| Lest it should be too roughly fanned | A |
| And break and fall for all your care | B |
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| Love is like that the lightest breath | C |
| Shakes all its blossoms o'er the land | A |
| And its mysterious cousin Death | C |
| Waits but to snatch it from your hand | A |
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| O some day should your hand forget | D |
| Your guardian eyes stray otherwhere | B |
| Your cheeks shall all in vain be wet | D |
| Vain all your penance and your prayer | B |
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| God gave you once this creature fair | B |
| You two mysteriously met | D |
| By Time's strange stream | E |
| There stood this Dream | E |
| This lovely Immortality | F |
| Given your mortal eyes to see | F |
| That might have been your darling yet | D |
| But in the place | G |
| Of her strange face | G |
| Sorrow will stand forever more | B |
| And Sorrow's hand be on your brow | B |
| And vainly you shall watch the door | B |
| For her so lightly with you now | B |
| And all the world be as before | B |
| Ah Spring shall sing and Summer bloom | H |
| And flowers fill Life's empty room | H |
| And all the singers sing in vain | I |
| Nor bring you back your flower again | J |
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| O have a care for this is all | K |
| Let not your magic blossom fall | K |
Richard Le Gallienne
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