The Lost Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EFBGC HCIJK KLMNO IBPIQ| If ever we see those gardens again | A |
| The summer will be gone at least our summer | B |
| Some other mockingbird will concertize | C |
| Among the mulberries and other vines | C |
| Will climb the high brick wall to disappear | D |
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| How many footpaths crossed the old estate | E |
| The gracious acreage of a grander age | F |
| So many trees to kiss or argue under | B |
| And greenery enough for any mood | G |
| What pleasure to be sad in such surroundings | C |
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| At least in retrospect For even sorrow | H |
| Seems bearable when studied at a distance | C |
| And if we speak of private suffering | I |
| The pain becomes part of a well turned tale | J |
| Describing someone else who shares our name | K |
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| Still thinking of you I sometimes play a game | K |
| What if we had walked a different path one day | L |
| Would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere | M |
| The way a pebble tossed into a brook | N |
| Might change the course a hundred miles downstream | O |
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| The trick is making memory a blessing | I |
| To learn by loss the cool subtraction of desire | B |
| Of wanting nothing more than what has been | P |
| To know the past forever lost yet seeing | I |
| Behind the wall a garden still in blossom | Q |
Dana Gioia
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