The Lily And The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KCKC LJLJ| The nymph must lose her female friend | A |
| If more admired than she | B |
| But where will fierce contention end | A |
| If flowers can disagree | B |
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| Within the garden's peaceful scene | C |
| Appeared two lovely foes | D |
| Aspiring to the rank of queen | C |
| The Lily and the Rose | D |
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| The Rose soon reddened into rage | E |
| And swelling with disdain | F |
| Appealed to many a poet's page | E |
| To prove her right to reign | F |
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| The Lily's height bespoke command | G |
| A fair imperial flower | H |
| She seemed designed for Flora's hand | G |
| The sceptre of her power | H |
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| This civil bickering and debate | I |
| The goddess chanced to hear | J |
| And flew to save ere yet too late | I |
| The pride of the parterre | J |
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| Yours is she said the nobler hue | K |
| And yours the statelier mien | C |
| And till a third surpasses you | K |
| Let each be deemed a queen | C |
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| Thus soothed and reconciled each seeks | L |
| The fairest British fair | J |
| The seat of empire is her cheeks | L |
| They reign united there | J |
William Cowper
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