How The Wall-flower Came First, And Why So Called Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDEFFGGHHFF I| Why this flower is now call'd so | A |
| List sweet maids and you shall know | A |
| Understand this firstling was | B |
| Once a brisk and bonnie lass | C |
| Kept as close as Dana was | B |
| Who a sprightly springall lov'd | D |
| And to have it fully prov'd | E |
| Up she got upon a wall | F |
| Tempting down to slide withal | F |
| But the silken twist untied | G |
| So she fell and bruis'd she died | G |
| Love in pity of the deed | H |
| And her loving luckless speed | H |
| Turn'd her to this plant we call | F |
| Now the flower of the wall | F |
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| nbsp | I |
Robert Herrick
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