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A Roxbury Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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Hoops	B
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Blue and pink sashes	C
Criss cross shoes	D
Minna and Stella run out into the garden	E
To play at hoop	F
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Up and down the garden paths they race	G
In the yellow sunshine	H
Each with a big round hoop	F
White as a stripped willow wand	I
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Round and round turn the hoops	B
Their diamond whiteness cleaving the yellow sunshine	H
The gravel crunches and squeaks beneath them	J
And a large pebble springs them into the air	K
To go whirling for a foot or two	L
Before they touch the earth again	M
In a series of little jumps	N
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Spring Hoops	B
Spit out a shower of blue and white brightness	O
The little criss cross shoes twinkle behind you	L
The pink and blue sashes flutter like flags	P
The hoop sticks are ready to beat you	L
Turn turn Hoops In the yellow sunshine	H
Turn your stripped willow whiteness	O
Along the smooth paths	Q
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Stella sings	R
'Round and round rolls my hoop	F
Scarcely touching the ground	S
With a swoop	F
And a bound	S
Round and round	S
With a bumpety crunching scattering sound	S
Down the garden it flies	T
In our eyes	T
The sun lies	T
See it spin	U
Out and in	U
Through the paths it goes whirling	V
About the beds curling	V
Sway now to the loop	F
Faster faster my hoop	F
Round you come	W
Up you come	W
Quick and straight as before	X
Run run my hoop run	E
Away from the sun '	-
	-
And the great hoop bounds along the path	Y
Leaping into the wind bright air	K
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Minna sings	R
'Turn hoop	F
Burn hoop	F
Twist and twine	H
Hoop of mine	H
Flash along	Z
Leap along	Z
Right at the sun	E
Run hoop run	E
Faster and faster	A2
Whirl twirl	B2
Wheel like fire	A2
And spin like glass	C2
Fire's no whiter	A2
Glass is no brighter	A2
Dance	D2
Prance	D2
Over and over	A2
About and about	E2
With the top of you under	A2
And the bottom at top	F2
But never a stop	F2
Turn about hoop to the tap of my stick	G2
I follow behind you	L
To touch and remind you	L
Burn and glitter so white and quick	G2
Round and round to the tap of a stick '	-
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The hoop flies along between the flower beds	H2
Swaying the flowers with the wind of its passing	V
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Beside the foxglove border roll the hoops	B
And the little pink and white bells shake and jingle	I2
Up and down their tall spires	J2
They roll under the snow ball bush	K2
And the ground behind them is strewn with white petals	L2
They swirl round a corner	A2
And jar a bee out of a Canterbury bell	M2
They cast their shadows for an instant	N2
Over a bed of pansies	O2
Catch against the spurs of a columbine	H
Jostle the quietness from a cluster of monk's hood	P2
Pat Pat behind them come the little criss cross shoes	D
And the blue and pink sashes stream out in flappings of colour	A2
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Stella sings	R
'Hoop hoop	F
Roll along	Z
Faster bowl along	Z
Hoop	F
Slow to the turning	V
Now go Go	Q2
Quick	G2
Here's the stick	G2
Rat a tap tap it	R2
Pat it flap it	R2
Fly like a bird or a yellow backed bee	S2
See how soon you can reach that tree	S2
Here is a path that is perfectly straight	T2
Roll along hoop or we shall be late '	-
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Minna sings	R
'Trip about slip about whip about	E2
Hoop	F
Wheel like a top at its quickest spin	U
Then dear hoop we shall surely win	U
First to the greenhouse and then to the wall	U2
Circle and circle	I2
And let the wind push you	L
Poke you	L
Brush you	L
And not let you fall	U2
Whirring you round like a wreath of mist	V2
Hoopety hoop	F
Twist	V2
Twist '	-
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Tap Tap go the hoop sticks	W2
And the hoops bowl along under a grape arbour	A2
For an instant their willow whiteness is green	X2
Pale white green	X2
Then they are out in the sunshine	H
Leaving the half formed grape clusters	Y2
A tremble under their big leaves	Z2
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'I will beat you Minna ' cries Stella	A3
Hitting her hoop smartly with her stick	G2
'Stella Stella we are winning ' calls Minna	A3
As her hoop curves round a bed of clove pinks	B3
A humming bird whizzes past Stella's ear	A2
And two or three yellow and black butterflies	T
Flutter startled out of a pillar rose	C3
Round and round race the little girls	D3
After their great white hoops	B
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Suddenly Minna stops	E3
Her hoop wavers an instant	N2
But she catches it up on her stick	G2
'Listen Stella '	-
Both the little girls are listening	V
And the scents of the garden rise up quietly about them	J
'It's the chaise It's Father	A2
Perhaps he's brought us a book from Boston '	-
Twinkle twinkle the little criss cross shoes	D
Up the garden path	Y
Blue pink an instant against the syringa hedge	F3
But the hoops white as stripped willow wands	G3
Lie in the grass	C2
And the grasshoppers jump back and forth	H3
Over them	J
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II	A
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Battledore and Shuttlecock	V
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The shuttlecock soars upward	I3
In a parabola of whiteness	O
Turns	J3
And sinks to a perfect arc	V
Plat the battledore strikes it	R2
And it rises again	M
Without haste	K3
Winged and curving	V
Tracing its white flight	L3
Against the clipped hemlock trees	O2
Plat	L3
Up again	M
Orange and sparkling with sun	E
Rounding under the blue sky	V
Dropping	V
Fading to grey green	X2
In the shadow of the coned hemlocks	O2
'Ninety one ' 'Ninety two ' 'Ninety three '	-
The arms of the little girls	O2
Come up and up	M3
Precisely	S2
Like mechanical toys	O2
The battledores beat at nothing	V
And toss the dazzle of snow	Q2
Off their parchment drums	O2
'Ninety four ' Plat	L3
'Ninety five ' Plat	L3
Back and forth	H3
Goes the shuttlecock	V
Icicle white	L3
Leaping at the sharp edged clouds	O2
Overturning	V
Falling	V
Down	N3
And down	N3
Tinctured with pink	V
From the upthrusting shine	H
Of Oriental poppies	O2
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The little girls sway to the counting rhythm	W
Left foot	L3
Right foot	L3
Plat Plat	L3
Yellow heat twines round the handles of the battledores	O2
The parchment cracks with dryness	O2
But the shuttlecock	V
Swings slowly into the ice blue sky	V
Heaving up on the warm air	A2
Like a foam bubble on a wave	O3
With feathers slanted and sustaining	V
Higher	A2
Until the earth turns beneath it	L3
Poised and swinging	V
With all the garden flowing beneath it	L3
Scarlet and blue and purple and white	L3
Blurred colour reflections in rippled water	A2
Changing streaming	V
For the moment that Stella takes to lift her arm	P3
Then the shuttlecock relinquishes	O2
Bows	O2
Descends	O2
And the sharp blue spears of the air	A2
Thrust it to earth	Q3
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Again it mounts	O2
Stepping up on the rising scents of flowers	O2
Buoyed up and under by the shining heat	L3
Above the foxgloves	O2
Above the guelder roses	O2
Above the greenhouse glitter	A2
Till the shafts of cooler air	A2
Meet it	L3
Deflect it	L3
Reject it	L3
Then down	N3
Down	N3
Past the greenhouse	O2
Past the guelder rose bush	K2
Past the foxgloves	O2
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'Ninety nine ' Stella's battledore springs to the impact	L3
Plunk Like the snap of a taut string	V
'Oh Minna '	-
The shuttlecock drops zigzagedly	S2
Out of orbit	L3
Hits the path	Y
And rolls over quite still	S2
Dead white feathers	O2
With a weight at the end	L3
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III	A
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Garden Games	O2
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The tall clock is striking twelve	R3
And the little girls stop in the hall to watch it	L3
And the big ships rocking in a half circle	S2
Above the dial	S2
Twelve o'clock	V
Down the side steps	O2
Go the little girls	O2
Under their big round straw hats	O2
Minna's has a pink ribbon	E
Stella's a blue	S2
That is the way they know which is which	S3
Twelve o'clock	V
An hour yet before dinner	A2
Mother is busy in the still room	T3
And Hannah is making gingerbread	L3
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Slowly with lagging steps	O2
They follow the garden path	Y
Crushing a leaf of box for its acrid smell	S2
Discussing what they shall do	S2
And doing nothing	V
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'Stella see that grasshopper	A2
Climbing up the bank	V
What a jump	U3
Almost as long as my arm '	-
Run children run	E
For the grasshopper is leaping away	V3
In half circle curves	O2
Shuttlecock curves	O2
Over the grasses	O2
Hand in hand the little girls call to him	W3
'Grandfather grandfather gray	V3
Give me molasses or I'll throw you away '	-
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The grasshopper leaps into the sunlight	L3
Golden green	X2
And is gone	X3
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'Let's catch a bee '	-
Round whirl the little girls	O2
And up the garden	E
Two heads are thrust among the Canterbury bells	O2
Listening	V
And fingers clasp and unclasp behind backs	O2
In a strain of silence	O2
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White bells	O2
Blue bells	O2
Hollo	S2