In The Mission Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FEGA HIGJ HBBB GHKD GCGL HKME JHNK CKKG CBBB DCDI G DDDH| Father Felipe | A |
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| I speak not the English well but Pachita | B |
| She speak for me is it not so my Pancha | C |
| Eh little rogue Come salute me the stranger | D |
| Americano | E |
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| Sir in my country we say Where the heart is | F |
| There live the speech Ah you not understand So | E |
| Pardon an old man what you call old fogy | G |
| Padre Felipe | A |
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| Old Se or old just so old as the Mission | H |
| You see that pear tree How old you think Se or | I |
| Fifteen year Twenty Ah Senor just fifty | G |
| Gone since I plant him | J |
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| You like the wine It is some at the Mission | H |
| Made from the grape of the year eighteen hundred | B |
| All the same time when the earthquake he come to | B |
| San Juan Bautista | B |
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| But Pancha is twelve and she is the rose tree | G |
| And I am the olive and this is the garden | H |
| And Pancha we say but her name is Francisca | K |
| Same like her mother | D |
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| Eh you knew her No Ah it is a story | G |
| But I speak not like Pachita the English | C |
| So if I try you will sit here beside me | G |
| And shall not laugh eh | L |
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| When the American come to the Mission | H |
| Many arrive at the house of Francisca | K |
| One he was fine man he buy the cattle | M |
| Of Jose Castro | E |
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| So he came much and Francisca she saw him | J |
| And it was love and a very dry season | H |
| And the pears bake on the tree and the rain come | N |
| But not Francisca | K |
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| Not for one year and one night I have walk much | C |
| Under the olive tree when comes Francisca | K |
| Comes to me here with her child this Francisca | K |
| Under the olive tree | G |
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| Sir it was sad but I speak not the English | C |
| So she stay here and she wait for her husband | B |
| He come no more and she sleep on the hillside | B |
| There stands Pachita | B |
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| Ah there's the Angelus Will you not enter | D |
| Or shall you walk in the garden with Pancha | C |
| Go little rogue st attend to the stranger | D |
| Adios Se or | I |
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| Pachita briskly | G |
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| So he's been telling that yarn about mother | D |
| Bless you he tells it to every stranger | D |
| Folks about yer say the old man's my father | D |
| What's your opinion | H |
Bret Harte (francis)
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