The Rose Of Flora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB DDEDC DFGFDF DHIJC| On Brady's tower there grows a flower | A |
| It is the loveliest flower that blows | B |
| At Castle Brady there lives a lady | C |
| And how I love her no one knows | B |
| Her name is Nora and the goddess Flora | D |
| Presents her with this blooming rose | B |
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| 'O Lady Nora ' says the goddess Flora | D |
| 'I've many a rich and bright parterre | D |
| In Brady's towers there's seven more flowers | E |
| But you're the fairest lady there | D |
| Not all the county nor Ireland's bounty | C |
| Can projuice a treasure that's half so fair ' | - |
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| What cheek is redder sure roses fed her | D |
| Her hair is maregolds and her eye of blew | F |
| Beneath her eyelid is like the vi'let | G |
| That darkly glistens with gentle jew | F |
| The lily's nature is not surely whiter | D |
| Than Nora's neck is and her arrums too | F |
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| 'Come gentle Nora ' says the goddess Flora | D |
| My dearest creature take my advice | H |
| There is a poet full well you know it | I |
| Who spends his lifetime in heavy sighs | J |
| Young Redmond Barry 'tis him you'll marry | C |
| If rhyme and raisin you'd choose likewise ' | - |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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