The Death Of The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKLM| Ah life dear life thy summer days have flown | A |
| Swiftly yet all too late for they did wither | B |
| Joy should be joy for one short hour alone | A |
| Or it will lose its loveliness for ever | B |
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| I did not spare to use the cruel knife | C |
| But cut the rose as soon as it was day | D |
| And gave it to my love Its little life | C |
| Passed like a sigh from Nature's breast away | D |
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| Full hearted flower thou didst not shrink nor flee | E |
| When the steel touched thee No sad memories | F |
| Made what thou knew not terrible to thee | E |
| And death came on thee like a sad surprise | G |
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| Too happy flower I would my love had died | H |
| At unawares by such a death as thine | I |
| I should have slain my love in its full pride | H |
| So had it lived and been for ever mine | I |
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| A treasure for all joy to ponder on | J |
| Laid up for aye in old Time's palaces | K |
| A thing of beauty'' which my soul had won | L |
| And death had made undying with a kiss | M |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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