The Rose of Rouen would northern lords over-run the south, but more, that "they would then live in it and take what they needed including wives and daughters." This is the fate, says the poem, that Edward of York saved England from. Like other political poetry of the period, it is careful to identify its protagonists by their cognizances rather than naming them: Edward, of course, is a white rose, his father Richard of York, Duke of York, is a falcon and fetterlock, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick a ragged staff, his uncle William Neville, Lord Fauconberg a fish hook, and John Mowbray, Duke
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time To the Rose upon the Rood of Time "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" is poem by W. B. Yeats that was published in "The Rose" in 1893. The poem is one of many early Yeatsian lyrical poems which utilize the symbol of the rose. The poem has twenty four lines, written in fairly regular iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is "aabbccddeeff gghhiijjkkaa," and the use of the rhyming couplets give the poem its euphonic feel.Poetry Archive Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! The symbol of the rose in “To the Rose upon the