Women And Roses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB A CCDDEEFGB A HHH I JJKKHHLLB B HHH I MMNNOOPPB I QQQ I RROOSSPPB| I | A |
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| I dream of a red rose tree | B |
| And which of its roses three | B |
| Is the dearest rose to me | B |
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| II | A |
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| Round and round like a dance of snow | C |
| In a dazzling drift as its guardians go | C |
| Floating the women faded for ages | D |
| Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages | D |
| Then follow women fresh and gay | E |
| Living and loving and loved to day | E |
| Last in the rear flee the multitude of maidens | F |
| Beauties yet unborn And all to one cadence | G |
| They circle their rose on my rose tree | B |
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| III | A |
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| Dear rose thy term is reached | H |
| Thy leaf hangs loose and bleached | H |
| Bees pass it unimpeached | H |
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| IV | I |
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| Stay then stoop since I cannot climb | J |
| You great shapes of the antique time | J |
| How shall I fix you fire you freeze you | K |
| Break my heart at your feet to please you | K |
| Oh to possess and be possessed | H |
| Hearts that beat 'neath each pallid breast | H |
| Once but of love the poesy the passion | L |
| Drink but once and die In vain the same fashion | L |
| They circle their rose on my rose tree | B |
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| V | B |
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| Dear rose thy joy's undimmed | H |
| Thy cup is ruby rimmed | H |
| Thy cup's heart nectar brimmed | H |
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| VI | I |
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| Deep as drops from a statue's plinth | M |
| The bee sucked in by the hyacinth | M |
| So will I bury me while burning | N |
| Quench like him at a plunge my yearning | N |
| Eyes in your eyes lips on your lips | O |
| Fold me fast where the cincture slips | O |
| Prison all my soul in eternities of pleasure | P |
| Girdle me for once But no the old measure | P |
| They circle their rose on my rose tree | B |
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| VII | I |
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| Dear rose without a thorn | Q |
| Thy bud's the babe unborn | Q |
| First streak of a new morn | Q |
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| VIII | I |
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| Wings lend wings for the cold the clear | R |
| What is far conquers what is near | R |
| Roses will bloom nor want beholders | O |
| Sprung from the dust where our flesh moulders | O |
| What shall arrive with the cycle's change | S |
| A novel grace and a beauty strange | S |
| I will make an Eve be the artist that began her | P |
| Shaped her to his mind Alas in like manner | P |
| They circle their rose on my rose tree | B |
Robert Browning
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