A Garden, Written After The Civil Wars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDDDDEEFFDDDD GGHHII| SEE how the flowers as at parade | A |
| Under their colours stand display'd | A |
| Each regiment in order grows | B |
| That of the tulip pink and rose | B |
| But when the vigilant patrol | C |
| Of stars walks round about the pole | C |
| Their leaves that to the stalks are curl'd | D |
| Seem to their staves the ensigns furl'd | D |
| Then in some flower's beloved hut | D |
| Each bee as sentinel is shut | D |
| And sleeps so too but if once stirr'd | D |
| She runs you through nor asks the word | D |
| O thou that dear and happy Isle | E |
| The garden of the world erewhile | E |
| Thou Paradise of the four seas | F |
| Which Heaven planted us to please | F |
| But to exclude the world did guard | D |
| With wat'ry if not flaming sword | D |
| What luckless apple did we taste | D |
| To make us mortal and thee waste | D |
| Unhappy shall we never more | G |
| That sweet militia restore | G |
| When gardens only had their towers | H |
| And all the garrisons were flowers | H |
| When roses only arms might bear | I |
| And men did rosy garlands wear | I |
Andrew Marvell
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