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 due | A |
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| As the HARTSTONGUE pants at the well | B |
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| And the HOUNDSTONGUE laps the SUNDEW | A |
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| Here's VENUS' COMBE for MAIDENHAIR | C |
| While KING CUPS drink BELLA DONNA | D |
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| Glad in purple and gold so fair | C |
| Though the DEADLY NIGHTSHADE'S upon her | C |
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| Behold LONDON PRIDE robed crowned | A |
| Ushered in by the GOLDEN ROD | A |
| While a floral crowd press around | A |
| Just to win from her crest a nod | A |
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| The FOXGLOVES are already on | E |
| Not only in pairs but dozens | F |
| They've come out to see all the fun | G |
| With sisters and aunts and cousins | F |
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| The STITCHWORK looked up with a sigh | H |
| At BATCHELOR'S BUTTONS unsewn | G |
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| Single Daisies were not in her eye | H |
| For the grass was just newly mown | G |
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| The HORSE TAIL 'scaped from WOLFE'S CLAW | I |
| Rides off with a LADIES' LAGES | F |
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| The FRIAR'S COWL hides a doctor of law | I |
| And the BISHOP'S WEED covers his grace's | F |
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| The SNAPDRAGON opened his jaw | I |
| But at sight of Scotch THISTLE turned pale | J |
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| He'd too many points of the law | I |
| For a dragon without a scale | J |
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| Little JENNY CREEPER lay low | K |
| Till happy thoughts made her gladder | C |
| How to rise in the world she'd know | K |
| So she climbed up JACOB'S LADDER | C |
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| SWEET WILLIAM with MARYGOLD | A |
| Seek HEARTSEASE in the close box border | C |
| Where starched in their ruff's stiff fold | A |
| DUTCH DAHLIAS prim keep order | C |
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| NARCISSUS bends over the brook | L |
| Intent upon DAFFA DOWN DILLY | M |
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| While EYEBRIGHT observes from her nook | L |
| And wonders he could be so silly | M |
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| A LANCE FOR A LAD 'gainst KING'S SPEAR | C |
| When the BUGLE sounds for the play | N |
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| A LADIES MANTLE flaunting there | C |
| Is the banner that leads the fray | N |
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| KNIGHT'S SPUR to the LADIES BOWER | C |
| To seek for the LADIES SLIPPER | C |
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| 'Twas lost in the wood in a summer shower | C |
| When the CLOWN'S WORT tried to trip her | C |
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| TOAD FLAX is spun for BUTTER AND EGGS | F |
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| On a LADIES' CUSHION sits THRIFT | A |
| She never wastes or steals or begs | F |
| But she can't give poor RAGWORT a lift | A |
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| QUEEN OF THE MEADS is MEADOWSWEET | A |
| In the realm of grasses wide | A |
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| But not in all her court you meet | A |
| The turbaned TURK'S HEAD in his pride | A |
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| Fair BETHLEHEM' STAR shineth bright | A |
| In a lowly place as of old | A |
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| And through the green gloom glows the light | A |
| Of ST JOHN'S WORT a nimbus of gold | A |
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| But the hours of the sun swift glide | A |
| And the flowers with them are speeding | O |
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| Though LOVE IN A MIST may hide | A |
| When Time's in the garden weeding | O |
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| There's TRAVELLER'S JOY | P |
| To entwine | G |
| At our journey's end for greeting | O |
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| We can talk over SOPS IN WINE | G |
| And drink to our next merry meeting | O |
Walter Crane
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