Coltsfoot And Larkspur Speedwell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B A CD CC AAAA EFGF HG HG IF IF IJ IJ KCKC ACAC LM LM CN CN CC CC F AFA AA AA AA AA AO AO PGO GO

In the race of the flowers that's run dueA
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As the HARTSTONGUE pants at the wellB
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And the HOUNDSTONGUE laps the SUNDEWA
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Here's VENUS' COMBE for MAIDENHAIRC
While KING CUPS drink BELLA DONNAD
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Glad in purple and gold so fairC
Though the DEADLY NIGHTSHADE'S upon herC
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Behold LONDON PRIDE robed crownedA
Ushered in by the GOLDEN RODA
While a floral crowd press aroundA
Just to win from her crest a nodA
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The FOXGLOVES are already onE
Not only in pairs but dozensF
They've come out to see all the funG
With sisters and aunts and cousinsF
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The STITCHWORK looked up with a sighH
At BATCHELOR'S BUTTONS unsewnG
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Single Daisies were not in her eyeH
For the grass was just newly mownG
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The HORSE TAIL 'scaped from WOLFE'S CLAWI
Rides off with a LADIES' LAGESF
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The FRIAR'S COWL hides a doctor of lawI
And the BISHOP'S WEED covers his grace'sF
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The SNAPDRAGON opened his jawI
But at sight of Scotch THISTLE turned paleJ
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He'd too many points of the lawI
For a dragon without a scaleJ
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Little JENNY CREEPER lay lowK
Till happy thoughts made her gladderC
How to rise in the world she'd knowK
So she climbed up JACOB'S LADDERC
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SWEET WILLIAM with MARYGOLDA
Seek HEARTSEASE in the close box borderC
Where starched in their ruff's stiff foldA
DUTCH DAHLIAS prim keep orderC
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NARCISSUS bends over the brookL
Intent upon DAFFA DOWN DILLYM
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While EYEBRIGHT observes from her nookL
And wonders he could be so sillyM
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A LANCE FOR A LAD 'gainst KING'S SPEARC
When the BUGLE sounds for the playN
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A LADIES MANTLE flaunting thereC
Is the banner that leads the frayN
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KNIGHT'S SPUR to the LADIES BOWERC
To seek for the LADIES SLIPPERC
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'Twas lost in the wood in a summer showerC
When the CLOWN'S WORT tried to trip herC
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TOAD FLAX is spun for BUTTER AND EGGSF
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On a LADIES' CUSHION sits THRIFTA
She never wastes or steals or begsF
But she can't give poor RAGWORT a liftA
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QUEEN OF THE MEADS is MEADOWSWEETA
In the realm of grasses wideA
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But not in all her court you meetA
The turbaned TURK'S HEAD in his prideA
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Fair BETHLEHEM' STAR shineth brightA
In a lowly place as of oldA
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And through the green gloom glows the lightA
Of ST JOHN'S WORT a nimbus of goldA
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But the hours of the sun swift glideA
And the flowers with them are speedingO
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Though LOVE IN A MIST may hideA
When Time's in the garden weedingO
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There's TRAVELLER'S JOYP
To entwineG
At our journey's end for greetingO
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We can talk over SOPS IN WINEG
And drink to our next merry meetingO

Walter Crane



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