Wasps In A Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJI KHKH LML BEN OPO| The wall trees are laden with fruit | A |
| The grape and the plum and the pear | B |
| The peach and the nectarine to suit | A |
| Every taste in abundance are there | B |
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| Yet all are not welcome to taste | C |
| These kind bounties of Nature for one | D |
| From her open spread table must haste | C |
| To make room for a more favoured son | D |
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| As that wasp will soon sadly perceive | E |
| Who has feasted awhile on a plum | F |
| And his thirst thinking now to relieve | E |
| For a sweet liquid draught he is come | F |
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| He peeps in the narrow mouthed glass | G |
| Which depends from a branch of the tree | H |
| He ventures to creep down alas | G |
| To be drowned in that delicate sea | H |
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| 'Ah say ' my dear friend 'is it right | I |
| These glass bottles are hung upon trees | J |
| Midst a scene of inviting delight | I |
| Should we find such mementos as these ' | - |
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| 'From such sights ' said my friend 'we may draw | K |
| A lesson for look at that bee | H |
| Compared with the wasp which you saw | K |
| He will teach us what we ought to be | H |
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| 'He in safety industriously plies | L |
| His sweet honest work all the day | M |
| Then home with his earnings he flies | L |
| Nor in thieving his time wastes away ' | - |
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| 'O hush nor with fables deceive ' | - |
| I replied 'which though pretty can ne'er | B |
| Make me cease for that insect to grieve | E |
| Who in agony still does appear | N |
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| 'If a simile ever you need | O |
| You are welcome to make a wasp do | P |
| But you ne'er should mix fiction indeed | O |
| With things that are serious and true ' | - |
Charles Lamb
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