Only Roses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAABBAA ACCADDBBAATo a garden full of posies | A |
Cometh one to gather flowers | A |
And he wanders through its bowers | A |
Toying with the wanton roses | A |
Who uprising from their beds | A |
Hold on high their shameless heads | A |
With their pretty lips a pouting | B |
Never doubting never doubting | B |
That for Cytherean posies | A |
He would gather aught but roses | A |
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In a nest of weeds and nettles | A |
Lay a violet half hidden | C |
Hoping that his glance unbidden | C |
Yet might fall upon her petals | A |
Though she lived alone apart | D |
Hope lay nestling at her heart | D |
But alas the cruel awaking | B |
Set her little heart a breaking | B |
For he gathered for his posies | A |
Only roses only roses | A |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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