Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDEEFFGGHHII JB F| The daisy scatter'd on each mead and down | A |
| A golden tuft within a silver crown | A |
| Fair fall that dainty flower and may there be | B |
| No shepherd grac'd that doth not honour thee | B |
| The primrose when with six leaves gotten grace | C |
| Maids as a true love in their bosoms place | C |
| The spotless lily by whose pure leaves be | B |
| Noted the chaste thoughts of virginity | B |
| Carnations sweet with colour like the fire | D |
| The fit impresas for inflam'd desire | D |
| The harebell for her stainless azur'd hue | E |
| Claims to be worn of none but those are true | E |
| The rose like ready youth enticing stands | F |
| And would be cropp'd if it might choose the hands | F |
| The yellow kingcup Flora them assign'd | G |
| To be the badges of a jealous mind | G |
| The orange tawny marigold the night | H |
| Hides not her colour from a searching sight | H |
| The columbine in tawny often taken | I |
| Is then ascrib'd to such as are forsaken | I |
| Flora's choice buttons of a russet dye | J |
| Is hope even in the depth of misery | B |
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| From Britannia's Pastorals | F |
William Browne
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