Lilac And Gold And Green Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE AGAGFFG| Lilac and gold and green | A |
| Those are the colours I love the best | B |
| Spring's own raiment untouched and clean | A |
| When the world is awake and yet hardly dressed | B |
| And the stranger sun her bridegroom shy | C |
| Looks at her bosom and wonders why | C |
| She is so beautiful he so blest | B |
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| Lilac and green and gold | D |
| Those were the colours you wore to day | E |
| Robed you were in them fold on fold | D |
| Clothed in the light of your love's delay | E |
| And I held you thus in my arms once only | F |
| And wondered still as you left me lonely | F |
| How the world's beauty was changed to grey | E |
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| Lilac and gold and green | A |
| I would die for the truth of those colours true | G |
| Lilac for loyalty gold for my queen | A |
| And green the faith of my love for you | G |
| Here is a posy of all the three | F |
| My heart is with it So think of me | F |
| And our weeping skies shall once more be blue | G |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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