Asking For Roses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C C CBCB BDB EBE EBEB| A house that lacks seemingly mistress and master | A |
| With doors that none but the wind ever closes | B |
| Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster | A |
| It stands in a garden of old fashioned roses | B |
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| I pass by that way in the gloaming with Mary | C |
| 'I wonder ' I say 'who the owner of those is ' | - |
| 'Oh no one you know ' she answers me airy | C |
| 'But one we must ask if we want any roses ' | - |
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| So we must join hands in the dew coming coldly | C |
| There in the hush of the wood that reposes | B |
| And turn and go up to the open door boldly | C |
| And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses | B |
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| 'Pray are you within there Mistress Who were you ' | - |
| 'Tis Mary that speaks and our errand discloses | B |
| 'Pray are you within there Bestir you bestir you | D |
| 'Tis summer again there's two come for roses | B |
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| 'A word with you that of the singer recalling | E |
| Old Herrick a saying that every maid knows is | B |
| A flower unplucked is but left to the falling | E |
| And nothing is gained by not gathering roses ' | - |
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| We do not loosen our hands' intertwining | E |
| Not caring so very much what she supposes | B |
| There when she comes on us mistily shining | E |
| And grants us by silence the boon of her roses | B |
Robert Frost
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