Rosemary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDDDE CCFCC GHGHHG IJJIKKI LL| Singing she washed | A |
| Her baby's clothes | B |
| And one by one | C |
| As they were done | C |
| She hung them in the sun to dry | D |
| She hung them on a bush hard by | D |
| Upon a waiting bush hard by | D |
| A glad expectant bush hard by | D |
| To dry in the sweet of the morning | E |
| - | |
| The while her son | C |
| Her little son | C |
| Lay kicking gleeful | F |
| In the sun | C |
| Her little naked Virgin son | C |
| - | |
| O wondrous sight Amazing sight | G |
| The Lord who did the sun create | H |
| Lay kicking with a babe's delight | G |
| Regardless of His low estate | H |
| In joy of nakedness elate | H |
| In His own sun's fair light | G |
| - | |
| And all the sweet sweet sweet of Him | I |
| Clave to the bush and still doth cleave | J |
| And doth forever more outgive | J |
| The fragrant holy sweet of Him | I |
| Where'er it thrives | K |
| That bush forthgives | K |
| The faint rare sacred sweet of Him | I |
| - | |
| So ever sweet and ever green | L |
| Shall Rosemary be queen | L |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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