The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHG IJIJ KLKL| The rose had been washed just washed in a shower | A |
| Which Mary to Anna conveyed | B |
| The plentiful moisture encumbered the flower | A |
| And weighed down its beautiful head | C |
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| The cup was all filled and the leaves were all wet | D |
| And it seemed to a fanciful view | E |
| To weep for the buds it had left with regret | D |
| On the flourishing bush where it grew | E |
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| I hastily seized it unfit as it was | F |
| For a nosegay so dripping and drowned | G |
| And swinging it rudely too rudely alas | H |
| I snapped it it fell to the ground | G |
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| And such I exclaimed is the pitiless part | I |
| Some act by the delicate mind | J |
| Regardless of wringing and breaking a heart | I |
| Already to sorrow resigned | J |
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| This elegant rose had I shaken it less | K |
| Might have bloomed with its owner awhile | L |
| And the tear that is wiped with a little address | K |
| May be followed perhaps by a smile | L |
William Cowper
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