Only Roses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAABBAA ACCADDBBAA| To 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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