My White Chrysanthemum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDDCC DEEDD FGGFF HGGHH IJJII| As purely white as is the drifted snow | A |
| More dazzling fair than summer roses are | B |
| Petalled with rays like a clear rounded star | B |
| When winds pipe chilly and red sunsets glow | A |
| Your blossoms blow | A |
| - | |
| Sweet with a freshening fragrance all their own | C |
| In which a faint dim breath of bitter lies | D |
| Like wholesome breath mid honeyed flatteries | D |
| When other blooms are dead and birds have flown | C |
| You stand alone | C |
| - | |
| Fronting the winter with a fearless grace | D |
| Flavoring the odorless gray autumn chill | E |
| Nipped by the furtive frosts but cheery still | E |
| Lifting to heaven from the bare garden place | D |
| A smiling face | D |
| - | |
| Roses are fair but frail and soon grow faint | F |
| Nor can endure a hardness violets blue | G |
| Short lived and sweet live but a day or two | G |
| The nun like lily bows without complaint | F |
| And dies a saint | F |
| - | |
| Each following each they hasten them away | H |
| And leave us to our winter and our rue | G |
| Sad and uncomforted you only you | G |
| Dear hardy lover keep your faith and stay | H |
| Long as you may | H |
| - | |
| And so we choose you out from all the rest | I |
| For that most noble word of Loyalty | J |
| Which blazoned on your petals seems to be | J |
| Winter is near stay with us be our guest | I |
| The last and best | I |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about My White Chrysanthemum poem by Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
Best Poems of Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)