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Petals by Amy Lowell Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay while years hurry on, the flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.
Examples-Alliteration, Hyperbole, Rhyme Scheme
I liked the poem because of how the author imagines that life is like a stream and how the image is floating. It speaks of hope and joy and all. It talks about how a tree must be like. The tree stays in the same place, while their seeds or spores float away from them, never to be seen. Then years pass and the fragrance of the seed that turned into a flower. The tree might be staying there never having any luck that the seed grows near it.
Alliteration: the flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.
Personification:Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy,
Rhyme Scheme: Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Sweeps them away, We alone stay
