The Lotus-flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BBEB FGFG HIHI JKJK BLBL MNMN OPBP QRQR QSQT QQQQ| All the heights of the high shores gleam | A |
| Red and gold at the sunset hour | B |
| There comes the spell of a magic dream | A |
| And the Harbour seems a lotus flower | B |
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| A blue flower tinted at dawn with gold | C |
| A broad flower blazing with light at noon | D |
| A flower forever with charms to hold | C |
| His heart who sees it by sun or moon | D |
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| Its beauty burns like a ceaseless fire | B |
| And tower looks over the top of tower | B |
| For all mute things it would seem aspire | E |
| To catch a glimpse of the lotus flower | B |
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| Men meet its beauty with furrowed face | F |
| And straight the furrows are smoothed away | G |
| They buy and sell in the market place | F |
| And languor leadens their blood all day | G |
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| At night they look on the flower and lo | H |
| The City passes with all its cares | I |
| They dream no more in its azure glow | H |
| Of gold and silver and stocks and shares | I |
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| The Lotus dreams 'neath the dreaming skies | J |
| Its beauty touching with spell divine | K |
| The grey old town till the old town lies | J |
| Like one half drunk with a magic wine | K |
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| Star loved it breathes at the midnight hour | B |
| A sense of peace from its velvet mouth | L |
| Though flowers be fair is there any flower | B |
| Like this blue flower of the radiant South | L |
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| Sun loved and lit by the moon it yields | M |
| A challenge glory or glow serene | N |
| And men bethink them of jewelled shields | M |
| A turquoise lighting a ground of green | N |
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| Fond lovers pacing beside it see | O |
| Not death and darkness but life and light | P |
| And dream no dream of the witchery | B |
| The Lotus sheds on the silent night | P |
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| Pale watchers weary of watching stars | Q |
| That fall and fall and forever fall | R |
| Tear worn and troubled with many scars | Q |
| They seek the Lotus and end life's thrall | R |
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| The spirit spelled by the Lotus swoons | Q |
| Its beauty summons the artist mood | S |
| And thus perchance in a thousand moons | Q |
| Its spell shall work in our waiting blood | T |
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| Then souls shall shine with an old time grace | Q |
| And sense be wrapped in a golden trance | Q |
| And art be crowned in the market place | Q |
| With Love and Beauty and fair Romance | Q |
Roderic Quinn
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