Weeding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHG IJIK LMLM NONO PQP| As busy Aurelia 'twixt work and 'twixt play | A |
| Was labouring industriously hard | B |
| To cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away | A |
| Which grew in her father's court yard | B |
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| In her juvenile anger wherever she found | C |
| She plucked and she pulled and she tore | D |
| The poor passive sufferers bestrewed all the ground | C |
| Not a weed of them all she forbore | D |
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| At length 'twas her chance on some nettles to light | E |
| Things till then she had scarcely heard named | F |
| The vulgar intruders called forth all her spite | E |
| In a transport of rage she exclaimed | F |
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| 'Shall briars so unsightly and worthless as those | G |
| Their great sprawling leaves thus presume | H |
| To mix with the pink the jonquil and the rose | G |
| And take up a flower's sweet room ' | - |
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| On the odious offenders enrag d she flew | I |
| But she presently found to her cost | J |
| A tingling unlooked for a pain that was new | I |
| And rage was in agony lost | K |
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| To her father she hastily fled for relief | L |
| And told him her pain and her smart | M |
| With kindly caresses he sooth d her grief | L |
| Then smiling he took the weed's part | M |
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| 'The world my Aurelia this garden of ours | N |
| Resembles too apt we're to deem | O |
| In the world's larger garden ourselves as the flowers | N |
| And the poor but as weeds to esteem | O |
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| 'But them if we rate or with rudeness repel | P |
| Though some will be passive enough | Q |
| From others who 're more independent 'tis well | P |
| If we meet not a stinging rebuff ' | - |
Charles Lamb
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