The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFG H HGIJ EKCL MII NI KO CPCE C OK OQJOREEE SCO| The rose is obsolete | A |
| but each petal ends in | B |
| an edge the double facet | C |
| cementing the grooved | C |
| columns of air The edge | D |
| cuts without cutting | E |
| meets nothing renews | F |
| itself in metal or porcelain | G |
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| whither It ends | H |
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| But if it ends | H |
| the start is begun | G |
| so that to engage roses | I |
| becomes a geometry | J |
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| Sharper neater more cutting | E |
| figured in majolica | K |
| the broken plate | C |
| glazed with a rose | L |
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| Somewhere the sense | M |
| makes copper roses | I |
| steel roses | I |
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| The rose carried weight of love | N |
| but love is at an end of roses | I |
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| It is at the edge of the | K |
| petal that love waits | O |
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| Crisp worked to defeat | C |
| laboredness fragile | P |
| plucked moist half raised | C |
| cold precise touching | E |
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| What | C |
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| The place between the petal's | O |
| edge and the | K |
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| From the petal's edge a line starts | O |
| that being of steel | Q |
| infinitely fine infinitely | J |
| rigid penetrates | O |
| the Milky Way | R |
| without contact lifting | E |
| from it neither hanging | E |
| nor pushing | E |
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| The fragility of the flower | S |
| unbruised | C |
| penetrates space | O |
William Carlos Williams
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