The Flower Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBFAFA GHIHJKJK| 'Tis said the rose is Love's own flower | A |
| Its blush so bright its thorns so many | B |
| And winter on its bloom has power | A |
| But has not on its sweetness any | B |
| For though young Love's ethereal rose | C |
| Will droop on Age's wintry bosom | D |
| Yet still its faded leaves disclose | C |
| The fragrance of their earliest blossom | D |
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| But ah the fragrance lingering there | E |
| Is like the sweets that mournful duty | B |
| Bestows with sadly soothing care | E |
| To deck the grave of bloom and beauty | B |
| For when its leaves are shrunk and dry | F |
| Its blush extinct to kindle never | A |
| That fragrance is but Memory's sigh | F |
| That breathes of pleasures past for ever | A |
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| Why did not Love the amaranth choose | G |
| That bears no thorns and cannot perish | H |
| Alas no sweets its flowers diffuse | I |
| And only sweets Love's life can cherish | H |
| But be the rose and amaranth twined | J |
| And Love their mingled powers assuming | K |
| Shall round his brows a chaplet bind | J |
| For ever sweet for ever blooming | K |
Thomas Love Peacock
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