The Garden Wall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE BBFGHFIJKBB LMNCOPQEBR| Bricks of the wall | A |
| so much older than the house | B |
| taken I think from a farm pulled down | C |
| when the street was built | D |
| narrow bricks of another century | E |
| - | |
| Modestly though laid with panels and parapets | B |
| a wall behind the flowers | B |
| roses and hollyhocks the silver | F |
| pods of lupine sweet tasting | G |
| phlox gray | H |
| lavender | F |
| unnoticed | I |
| but I discovered | J |
| the colors in the wall that woke | K |
| when spray from the hose | B |
| played on its pocks and warts | B |
| - | |
| a hazy red a | L |
| grain gold a mauve | M |
| of small shadows sprung | N |
| from the quiet dry brown | C |
| archetype | O |
| of the world always a step | P |
| beyond the world that can't | Q |
| be looked for only | E |
| as the eye wanders | B |
| found | R |
Denise Levertov
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