Hast Thou A Song For A Flower. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDBCEFGF A EEEEEEHIGI| I | A |
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| HAST thou a song for a flower | B |
| Such as if breathed in its ear | C |
| Would waken in beauty's own bower | B |
| The spirit most fit to be there | D |
| Then minstrel I challenge thy power | B |
| Such song if thou hast sing it here | C |
| Here where the breeze o'erwearied | E |
| With his travel o'er ocean creeps | F |
| And on the green leaf by her lattice | G |
| Sinks languidly down and sleeps | F |
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| II | A |
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| For her the sweet music thou bringest | E |
| Must in a true spirit be wrought | E |
| And the passion of mine thou singest | E |
| Must be pure as the child's first thought | E |
| If none such within thee springest | E |
| Away for thy presence is naught | E |
| Far better the breeze at waking | H |
| Should tell her that hopeless I come | I |
| With itself to the leaf at her lattice | G |
| And laid me down dreaming but dumb | I |
William Gilmore Simms
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