The Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG EGHGGIEJ EGGGKLMLLNOP ELQLARERSSOP ETETEUNUVVOP ELGLEGFGWWOP EXAXLGLGEELL| To our private taste there is always something a little exotic | A |
| almost artificial in songs which under an English aspect and dress | B |
| are yet so manifestly the product of other skies They affect us | C |
| like translations the very fauna and flora are alien remote | D |
| the dog's tooth violet is but an ill substitute for the rathe primrose | E |
| nor can we ever believe that the wood robin sings as sweetly in April | F |
| as the English thrush THE ATHEN AEUM | G |
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| Buy my English posies | E |
| Kent and Surrey may | G |
| Violets of the Undercliff | H |
| Wet with Channel spray | G |
| Cowslips from a Devon combe | G |
| Midland furze afire | I |
| Buy my English posies | E |
| And I'll sell your heart's desire | J |
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| Buy my English posies | E |
| You that scorn the May | G |
| Won't you greet a friend from home | G |
| Half the world away | G |
| Green against the draggled drift | K |
| Faint and frail and first | L |
| Buy my Northern blood root | M |
| And I'll know where you were nursed | L |
| Robin down the logging road whistles quot Come to me quot | L |
| Spring has found the maple grove the sap is running free | N |
| All the winds of Canada call the ploughing rain | O |
| Take the flower and turn the hour and kiss your love again | P |
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| Buy my English posies | E |
| Here's to match your need | L |
| Buy a tuft of royal heath | Q |
| Buy a bunch of weed | L |
| White as sand of Muysenberg | A |
| Spun before the gale | R |
| Buy my heath and lilies | E |
| And I'll tell you whence you hail | R |
| Under hot Constantia broad the vineyards lie | S |
| Throned and thorned the aching berg props the speckless sky | S |
| Slow below the Wynberg firs trails the tilted wain | O |
| Take the flower and turn the hour and kiss your love again | P |
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| Buy my English posies | E |
| You that will not turn | T |
| Buy my hot wood clematis | E |
| Buy a frond o' fern | T |
| Gathered where the Erskine leaps | E |
| Down the road to Lorne | U |
| Buy my Christmas creeper | N |
| And I'll say where you were born | U |
| West away from Melbourne dust holidays begin | V |
| They that mock at Paradise woo at Cora Lynn | V |
| Through the great South Otway gums sings the great South Main | O |
| Take the flower and turn the hour and kiss your love again | P |
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| Buy my English posies | E |
| Here's your choice unsold | L |
| Buy a blood red myrtle bloom | G |
| Buy the kowhai's gold | L |
| Flung for gift on Taupo's face | E |
| Sign that spring is come | G |
| Buy my clinging myrtle | F |
| And I'll give you back your home | G |
| Broom behind the windy town pollen o' the pine | W |
| Bell bird in the leafy deep where the ratas twine | W |
| Fern above the saddle bow flax upon the plain | O |
| Take the flower and turn the hour and kiss your love again | P |
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| Buy my English posies | E |
| Ye that have your own | X |
| Buy them for a brother's sake | A |
| Overseas alone | X |
| Weed ye trample underfoot | L |
| Floods his heart abrim | G |
| Bird ye never heeded | L |
| Oh she calls his dead to him | G |
| Far and far our homes are set round the Seven Seas | E |
| Woe for us if we forget we that hold by these | E |
| Unto each his mother beach bloom and bird and land | L |
| Masters of the Seven Seas oh love and understand | L |
Rudyard Kipling
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