Primrose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDEABFGHIJKLBMM BNOPQRSTMQ| Yellow yellow yellow yellow | A |
| It is not a color | B |
| It is summer | B |
| It is the wind on a willow | A |
| the lap of waves the shadow | A |
| under a bush a bird a bluebird | C |
| three herons a dead hawk | D |
| rotting on a pole | E |
| Clear yellow | A |
| It is a piece of blue paper | B |
| in the grass or a threecluster of | F |
| green walnuts swaying children | G |
| playing croquet or one boy | H |
| fishing a man | I |
| swinging his pink fists | J |
| as he walks | K |
| It is ladysthumb forget me nots | L |
| in the ditch moss under | B |
| the flange of the carrail the | M |
| wavy lines in split rock a | M |
| great oaktree | B |
| It is a disinclination to be | N |
| five red petals or a rose it is | O |
| a cluster of birdsbreast flowers | P |
| on a red stem six feet high | Q |
| four open yellow petals | R |
| above sepals curled | S |
| backward into reverse spikes | T |
| Tufts of purple grass spot the | M |
| green meadow and clouds the sky | Q |
William Carlos Williams
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