The Tuft Of Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC BB D EE FF GG HH EE II JJ KK LL MM BB GG BB NN OO D| I went to turn the grass once after one | A |
| Who mowed it in the dew before the sun | A |
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| The dew was gone that made his blade so keen | B |
| Before I came to view the levelled scene | B |
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| I looked for him behind an isle of trees | C |
| I listened for his whetstone on the breeze | C |
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| But he had gone his way the grass all mown | B |
| And I must be as he had been alone | B |
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| 'As all must be ' I said within my heart | D |
| 'Whether they work together or apart ' | - |
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| But as I said it swift there passed me by | E |
| On noiseless wing a bewildered butterfly | E |
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| Seeking with memories grown dim over night | F |
| Some resting flower of yesterday's delight | F |
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| And once I marked his flight go round and round | G |
| As where some flower lay withering on the ground | G |
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| And then he flew as far as eye could see | H |
| And then on tremulous wing came back to me | H |
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| I thought of questions that have no reply | E |
| And would have turned to toss the grass to dry | E |
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| But he turned first and led my eye to look | I |
| At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook | I |
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| A leaping tongue of bloom the scythe had spared | J |
| Beside a reedy brook the scythe had bared | J |
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| I left my place to know them by their name | K |
| Finding them butterfly weed when I came | K |
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| The mower in the dew had loved them thus | L |
| By leaving them to flourish not for us | L |
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| Nor yet to draw one thought of ours to him | M |
| But from sheer morning gladness at the brim | M |
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| The butterfly and I had lit upon | B |
| Nevertheless a message from the dawn | B |
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| That made me hear the wakening birds around | G |
| And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground | G |
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| And feel a spirit kindred to my own | B |
| So that henceforth I worked no more alone | B |
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| But glad with him I worked as with his aid | N |
| And weary sought at noon with him the shade | N |
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| And dreaming as it were held brotherly speech | O |
| With one whose thought I had not hoped to reach | O |
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| 'Men work together ' I told him from the heart | D |
| 'Whether they work together or apart ' | - |
Robert Frost
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