The Dayspring Bluebonnet



Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew
Proudly and loudly, your entrance you make,
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.

Brighting the day as you burst into view
Fresh as the sunrise, delight of daybreak
Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew.

Fair in a fairy-tale fantasy you
Beam as the morningtide beckons you wake
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.

Profits  aplenty, your faultings are few;
Yielding and modest , no credit you take.
Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew.

Dancing, romancing, admirers to woo,
Though winsome compliment words to forsake
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.

So now in the brilliant hue of your blue
Out in the meadow alongside the lake
Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.

About this poem

Writ in 1990 as a tribute to the land and people of Texas, USA, by an Englishman. This poem is a ten syllable (20th. Century style) villanelle. The state flower of Texas is, not so the famous yellow rose of there, but the beautiful and poetic bluebonnet.

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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on June 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AbA abA abA abA abA abAA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 726
Words 119
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4

Alan S Jeeves

 · 1951 · Lancashire

Alan S Jeeves is a Lancashire (England) born, Yorkshire based classical poet. more…

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