My Neighbour's Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED BFGF BHBH IBJB KHLH| Why in my neighbour's garden | A |
| Are the flowers more sweet than mine | B |
| I had never such bloom of roses | C |
| Such yellow and pink woodbine | B |
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| Why in my neighbour's garden | B |
| Are the fruits all red and gold | D |
| While here the grapes are bitter | E |
| That hang for my fingers' hold | D |
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| Why in my neighbour's garden | B |
| Do the birds all fly to sing | F |
| Over the fence between us | G |
| One would think 'twas always spring | F |
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| I thought my own wide garden | B |
| Once more sweet and fair than all | H |
| Till I saw the gold and crimson | B |
| Just over my neighbour's wall | H |
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| But now I want his thrushes | I |
| And now I want his vine | B |
| If I cannot have his cherries | J |
| That grow more red than mine | B |
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| The serpent 'neath his apples | K |
| Will tempt me to my fall | H |
| And then I'll steal my neighbour's fruit | L |
| Across the garden wall | H |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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