Foresight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEE FFGHGHII JJKLKLMN HHOPOPHH| That is work of waste and ruin | A |
| Do as Charles and I are doing | B |
| Strawberry blossoms one and all | C |
| We must spare them here are many | D |
| Look at it the flower is small | C |
| Small and low though fair as any | D |
| Do not touch it summers two | E |
| I am older Anne than you | E |
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| Pull the primrose sister Anne | F |
| Pull as many as you can | F |
| Here are daisies take your fill | G |
| Pansies and the cuckoo flower | H |
| Of the lofty daffodil | G |
| Make your bed or make your bower | H |
| Fill your lap and fill your bosom | I |
| Only spare the strawberry blossom | I |
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| Primroses the Spring may love them | J |
| Summer knows but little of them | J |
| Violets a barren kind | K |
| Withered on the ground must lie | L |
| Daisies leave no fruit behind | K |
| When the pretty flowerets die | L |
| Pluck them and another year | M |
| As many will be blowing here | N |
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| God has given a kindlier power | H |
| To the favoured strawberry flower | H |
| Hither soon as spring is fled | O |
| You and Charles and I will walk | P |
| Lurking berries ripe and red | O |
| Then will hang on every stalk | P |
| Each within its leafy bower | H |
| And for that promise spare the flower | H |
William Wordsworth
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