A Daffodil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB AADA EAFA GBHB AIJI KLMN AOPO QRSR BTUT AVWV XYZY| Pure throated Flower | A |
| Smelling of Spring | B |
| Shaped beyond art's | C |
| Imagining | B |
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| Fathomless colour | A |
| Breathed as an ether | A |
| Of flame and of stillness | D |
| Melted together | A |
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| Soul of the sun's beam | E |
| Changed to fairy | A |
| Flesh so delicate | F |
| Poised and airy | A |
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| I think of my own kind | G |
| Hardly winning | B |
| A thousand battles | H |
| For joy's beginning | B |
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| Victory bloody | A |
| And with evil shared | I |
| Splendour soiled | J |
| And greatness snared | I |
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| Truth conceded | K |
| Or won by halves | L |
| Pitiful sores | M |
| And sorrier salves | N |
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| Blind authority | A |
| Treading like oxen's heels | O |
| All that sees clearest | P |
| All that most feels | O |
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| But you are absolute | Q |
| Follow who can | R |
| As a commandment | S |
| Of God to man | R |
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| Straight you spring | B |
| And whole you spend | T |
| And fall upon fruitful earth | U |
| Clean to the end | T |
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| O to be pure | A |
| As a single sense | V |
| Keen as scorn | W |
| As love intense | V |
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| To live in the light | X |
| And to die in a deed | Y |
| That is faith's Amen | Z |
| And has sown its seed | Y |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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