To The Fringed Gentian. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| Thou blossom bright with autumn dew | A |
| And coloured with the heaven's own blue | A |
| That openest when the quiet light | B |
| Succeeds the keen and frosty night | B |
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| Thou comest not when violets lean | C |
| O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen | C |
| Or columbines in purple dressed | D |
| Nod o'er the ground bird's hidden nest | D |
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| Thou waitest late and com'st alone | E |
| When woods are bare and birds are flown | E |
| And frosts and shortening days portend | F |
| The aged year is near his end | F |
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| Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye | G |
| Look through its fringes to the sky | G |
| Blue blue as if that sky let fall | H |
| A flower from its cerulean wall | H |
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| I would that thus when I shall see | I |
| The hour of death draw near to me | I |
| Hope blossoming within my heart | J |
| May look to heaven as I depart | J |
William Cullen Bryant
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