The Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF CCCCWhen Love arose in heart and deed | A |
To wake the world to greater joy | B |
'What can she give me now ' said Greed | A |
Who thought to win some costly toy | B |
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He rose he ran he stoop'd he clutch'd | C |
And soon the Flowers that Love let fall | D |
In Greed's hot grasp were fray'd and smutch'd | C |
And Greed said 'Flowers Can this be all ' | - |
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He flung them down and went his way | E |
He cared no jot for thyme or rose | F |
But boys and girls came out to play | E |
And some took these and some took those | F |
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Red blue and white and green and gold | C |
And at their touch the dew return'd | C |
And all the bloom a thousandfold | C |
So red so ripe the roses burn'd | C |
William Brighty Rands
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