The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNN OOPPIIMM QQRRSSTT UVWWXXCC YZA2A2B2B2C2C2 D2D2OOE2E2F2G2 H2H2F2F2BBI2I2| How vainly men themselves amaze | A |
| To win the palm the oak or bays | A |
| And their uncessant labours see | B |
| Crown'd from some single herb or tree | B |
| Whose short and narrow verg egrave d shade | C |
| Does prudently their toils upbraid | C |
| While all flow'rs and all trees do close | D |
| To weave the garlands of repose | E |
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| Fair Quiet have I found thee here | F |
| And Innocence thy sister dear | G |
| Mistaken long I sought you then | H |
| In busy companies of men | H |
| Your sacred plants if here below | I |
| Only among the plants will grow | I |
| Society is all but rude | J |
| To this delicious solitude | J |
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| No white nor red was ever seen | K |
| So am'rous as this lovely green | K |
| Fond lovers cruel as their flame | L |
| Cut in these trees their mistress' name | L |
| Little alas they know or heed | M |
| How far these beauties hers exceed | M |
| Fair trees wheres'e'er your barks I wound | N |
| No name shall but your own be found | N |
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| When we have run our passion's heat | O |
| Love hither makes his best retreat | O |
| The gods that mortal beauty chase | P |
| Still in a tree did end their race | P |
| Apollo hunted Daphne so | I |
| Only that she might laurel grow | I |
| And Pan did after Syrinx speed | M |
| Not as a nymph but for a reed | M |
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| What wond'rous life in this I lead | Q |
| Ripe apples drop about my head | Q |
| The luscious clusters of the vine | R |
| Upon my mouth do crush their wine | R |
| The nectarine and curious peach | S |
| Into my hands themselves do reach | S |
| Stumbling on melons as I pass | T |
| Ensnar'd with flow'rs I fall on grass | T |
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| Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less | U |
| Withdraws into its happiness | V |
| The mind that ocean where each kind | W |
| Does straight its own resemblance find | W |
| Yet it creates transcending these | X |
| Far other worlds and other seas | X |
| Annihilating all that's made | C |
| To a green thought in a green shade | C |
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| Here at the fountain's sliding foot | Y |
| Or at some fruit tree's mossy root | Z |
| Casting the body's vest aside | A2 |
| My soul into the boughs does glide | A2 |
| There like a bird it sits and sings | B2 |
| Then whets and combs its silver wings | B2 |
| And till prepar'd for longer flight | C2 |
| Waves in its plumes the various light | C2 |
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| Such was that happy garden state | D2 |
| While man there walk'd without a mate | D2 |
| After a place so pure and sweet | O |
| What other help could yet be meet | O |
| But 'twas beyond a mortal's share | E2 |
| To wander solitary there | E2 |
| Two paradises 'twere in one | F2 |
| To live in paradise alone | G2 |
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| How well the skillful gard'ner drew | H2 |
| Of flow'rs and herbs this dial new | H2 |
| Where from above the milder sun | F2 |
| Does through a fragrant zodiac run | F2 |
| And as it works th' industrious bee | B |
| Computes its time as well as we | B |
| How could such sweet and wholesome hours | I2 |
| Be reckon'd but with herbs and flow'rs | I2 |
Andrew Marvell
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