The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBB FFGG AABB FFHISweet serene sky like flower | A |
Haste to adorn her bower | A |
From thy long cloudy bed | B |
Shoot forth thy damask head | B |
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New startled blush of Flora | C |
The grief of pale Aurora | C |
Who will contest no more | D |
Haste haste to strew her floor | D |
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Vermilion ball that's given | E |
From lip to lip in heaven | E |
Love's couch's coverlet | B |
Haste haste to make her bed | B |
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Dear offspring of pleased Venus | F |
And jolly plump Silenus | F |
Haste haste to deck the hair | G |
Of the only sweetly fair | G |
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See rosy is her bower | A |
Her floor is all this flower | A |
Her bed a rosy nest | B |
By a bed of roses pressed | B |
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But early as she dresses | F |
Why fly you her bright tresses | F |
Ah I have found I fear mdash | H |
Because her cheeks are near | I |
Richard Lovelace
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