Song Of The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGEF| F Zeus chose us a King of the flowers in his mirth | A |
| He would call to the rose and would royally crown it | B |
| For the rose ho the rose is the grace of the earth | A |
| Is the light of the plants that are growing upon it | B |
| For the rose ho the rose is the eye of the flowers | C |
| Is the blush of the meadows that feel themselves fair | D |
| Is the lightning of beauty that strikes through the bowers | C |
| On pale lovers that sit in the glow unaware | D |
| Ho the rose breathes of love ho the rose lifts the cup | E |
| To the red lips of Cypris invoked for a guest | F |
| Ho the rose having curled its sweet leaves for the world | G |
| Takes delight in the motion its petals keep up | E |
| As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west | F |
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