Geraniums Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDB ABBC BECCBE BFFBGGB| Stuck in a bottle on the window sill | A |
| In the cold gaslight burning gaily red | B |
| Against the luminous blue of London night | C |
| These flowers are mine while somewhere out of sight | C |
| In some black throated alley's stench and heat | D |
| Oblivious of the racket of the street | D |
| A poor old weary woman lies in bed | B |
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| Broken with lust and drink blear eyed and ill | A |
| Her battered bonnet nodding on her head | B |
| From a dark arch she clutched my sleeve and said | B |
| 'I've sold no bunch to day nor touched a bite | C |
| Son buy six pennorth and 't will mean a bed ' | - |
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| So blazing gaily red | B |
| Against the luminous deeps | E |
| Of starless London night | C |
| They burn for my delight | C |
| While somewhere snug in bed | B |
| A worn old woman sleeps | E |
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| And yet to morrow will these blooms be dead | B |
| With all their lively beauty and to morrow | F |
| May end the light lusts and the heavy sorrow | F |
| Of that old body with the nodding head | B |
| The last oath muttered the last pint drained deep | G |
| She'll sink as Cleopatra sank to sleep | G |
| Nor need to barter blossoms for a bed | B |
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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