The Flower Shop Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDD EFEFGHGH IJIJ FD| Because I have no garden and | A |
| No pence to buy | B |
| Before the flower shop I stand | C |
| And sigh | B |
| The beauty of the Springtide spills | D |
| In glowing posies | D |
| Of voilets and daffodils | D |
| And roses | D |
| - | |
| And as I see that joy of bloom | E |
| Sad sighing | F |
| I think of Mother in her room | E |
| Lone lying | F |
| She babbles of the garden fair | G |
| Her childhood knew | H |
| And how she gathered roses there | G |
| In joyous dew | H |
| - | |
| I shiver in the street so grey | I |
| Yet still I stop | J |
| In gutter grime it seems so gay | I |
| This flower shop | J |
| 'Oh Mister could you spare one rose ' | - |
| There now I'm crying | F |
| 'For Mother every blossom knows | D |
| Is dying ' | - |
Robert William Service
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