The Last Chrysanthemum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DEDE FEFE DBDB GEGE| Why should this flower delay so long | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To show its tremulous plumes | B |
| Now is the time of plaintive robin song | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When flowers are in their tombs | B |
| - | |
| Through the slow summer when the sun | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Called to each frond and whorl | D |
| That all he could for flowers was being done | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Why did it not uncurl | D |
| - | |
| It must have felt that fervid call | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Although it took no heed | E |
| Waking but now when leaves like corpses fall | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And saps all retrocede | E |
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| Too late its beauty lonely thing | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The season's shine is spent | E |
| Nothing remains for it but shivering | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In tempests turbulent | E |
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| Had it a reason for delay | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Dreaming in witlessness | B |
| That for a bloom so delicately gay | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Winter would stay its stress | B |
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| I talk as if the thing were born | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With sense to work its mind | E |
| Yet it is but one mask of many worn | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp By the Great Face behind | E |
Thomas Hardy
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