Gardeners Grouch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAABCCD EFGEFBAEE EHEEHAICC| There's a looper caterpillar in my lupins | A |
| There are weevils weaving strands about my stocks | A |
| There are throngs of thieving thrips | A |
| On my seedlings and my slips | A |
| And the hoppers hop around my hollyhocks | A |
| While the aphis eats my early antirrhinums | A |
| All oblivious to the dreadful damage done | B |
| And the jassids jazzing gaily | C |
| Round dead jonquils jar me daily | C |
| Yet I'd thought to take up gardening 'just for fun ' | D |
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| I have blown 'em with a bellows filled with sulphur | E |
| I've assaulted 'em with arsenate of lead | F |
| I have prayed a vengeful prayer | G |
| As I sprayed 'em with a sprayer | E |
| But the cross grained little cuses won't stay dead | F |
| I have bathed 'em with enough benzole emulsion | B |
| And deadly drugs to dropp them in their tracks | A |
| Then I vainly sought their slaughter | E |
| With a stong tobacco water | E |
| And I'd thought to take up gardening 'to relax ' | - |
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| Now the strange unlovely scent of lime and sulphur | E |
| Outvies the sweet bouquet of bud and bloom | H |
| And the smell of Bordeaux mixture | E |
| On my person is a fixture | E |
| So my wife won't let me in our drawing room | H |
| Dark odors hang about herbaceous borders | A |
| Where I seek the stealthy sluglet after dark | I |
| But my garden has undone me | C |
| Even little children shun me | C |
| And I'd thought to take up gardening 'for a lark ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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