Among The Lilies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB ADEDFFD GHIHJJH| She stood among the lilies | A |
| In sunset's brightest ray | B |
| Among the tall June lilies | A |
| As stately fair as they | B |
| And I a boyish lover then | C |
| Looked once and lingering looked again | C |
| And life began that day | B |
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| She sat among the lilies | A |
| My sweet all lily pale | D |
| The summer lilies listened | E |
| I whispered low my tale | D |
| O golden anthers breathing balm | F |
| O hush of peace O twilight calm | F |
| Did you or I prevail | D |
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| She lies among the lily snows | G |
| Beneath the wintry sky | H |
| All round her and about her | I |
| The buried lilies lie | H |
| They will awake at touch of Spring | J |
| And she my fair and flower like thing | J |
| In spring time by and by | H |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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