The Wedding Of The Rose And The Lotos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEE FGEGEHEH IJKJELIL EMNMEEEE| The wide Pacific waters | A |
| And the Atlantic meet | B |
| With cries of joy they mingle | C |
| In tides of love they greet | B |
| Above the drowned ages | D |
| A wind of wooing blows | E |
| The red rose woos the lotos | E |
| The lotos woos the rose | E |
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| The lotos conquered Egypt | F |
| The rose was loved in Rome | G |
| Great India crowned the lotos | E |
| Britain the rose's home | G |
| Old China crowned the lotos | E |
| They crowned it in Japan | H |
| But Christendom adored the rose | E |
| Ere Christendom began | H |
| - | |
| The lotos speaks of slumber | I |
| The rose is as a dart | J |
| The lotos is Nirvana | K |
| The rose is Mary's heart | J |
| The rose is deathless restless | E |
| The splendor of our pain | L |
| The flush and fire of labor | I |
| That builds not all in vain | L |
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| The genius of the lotos | E |
| Shall heal earth's too much fret | M |
| The rose in blinding glory | N |
| Shall waken Asia yet | M |
| Hail to their loves ye peoples | E |
| Behold a world wind blows | E |
| That aids the ivory lotos | E |
| To wed the red red rose | E |
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