The Rose Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDA EFEG BHBG| 'O words are lightly spoken ' | A |
| Said Pearse to Connolly | B |
| 'Maybe a breath of politic words | C |
| Has withered our Rose Tree | B |
| Or maybe but a wind that blows | D |
| Across the bitter sea ' | A |
| - | |
| 'It needs to be but watered ' | - |
| James Connolly replied | E |
| 'To make the green come out again | F |
| And spread on every side | E |
| And shake the blossom from the bud | G |
| To be the garden's pride ' | - |
| - | |
| 'But where can we draw water ' | - |
| Said Pearse to Connolly | B |
| 'When all the wells are parched away | H |
| O plain as plain can be | B |
| There's nothing but our own red blood | G |
| Can make a right Rose Tree ' | - |
William Butler Yeats
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