To Water Lilies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJAADD KKFFLL MMNNOPLL| Beautiful flowers with your petals bright | A |
| Ye float on the waves like spirits of light | A |
| Wooing the zephyr that ruffles your leaves | B |
| With a gentle sigh like a lover that grieves | B |
| When his mistress blushing turns away | C |
| From his pleading voice and impassioned lay | C |
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| Beautiful flowers the sun's westward beam | D |
| Still lingering plays on the crystal stream | D |
| And ye look like some Naiad's golden shrine | E |
| That is lighted up with a flame divine | E |
| Or a bark in which love might safely glide | F |
| Impelled by the breeze o'er the purple tide | F |
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| Beautiful flowers how I love to gaze | G |
| On your glorious hues in the noon tide blaze | G |
| And to see them reflected far below | H |
| In the azure waves as they onward flow | H |
| When the spirit who moves them sighing turns | I |
| Where his golden crown on the water burns | I |
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| Beautiful flowers in the rosy west | J |
| The sun has sunk in his crimson vest | J |
| And the pearly tears of the weeping night | A |
| Have spangled your petals with gems of light | A |
| And turned to stars every wandering beam | D |
| Which the pale moon throws on the silver stream | D |
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| Beautiful flowers yet a little while | K |
| And the sun on your faded buds shall smile | K |
| And the balm laden zephyr that o'er you sighed | F |
| Shall scatter your leaves o'er the glassy tide | F |
| And the spirit that moved the stream shall spread | L |
| His lucid robe o'er your watery bed | L |
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| Beautiful flowers our youth is as brief | M |
| As the short lived date of your golden leaf | M |
| The summer will come and each amber urn | N |
| Like a love lighted torch on the waves shall burn | N |
| But when the first bloom of our life is o'er | O |
| No after spring can its freshness restore | P |
| But faith can twine round the hoary head | L |
| A garland of beauty when youth is fled | L |
Susanna Moodie
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