O Gather Me The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FDFD AGAG| O gather me the rose the rose | A |
| While yet in flower we find it | B |
| For summer smiles but summer goes | A |
| And winter waits behind it | B |
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| For with the dream foregone foregone | C |
| The deed foreborn forever | D |
| The worm Regret will canker on | E |
| And time will turn him never | D |
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| So were it well to love my love | F |
| And cheat of any laughter | D |
| The fate beneath us and above | F |
| The dark before and after | D |
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| The myrtle and the rose the rose | A |
| The sunshine and the swallow | G |
| The dream that comes the wish that goes | A |
| The memories that follow | G |
William Ernest Henley
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