Bulb Planting Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFAGAFHIHIJGJF FAKA| Last night he said the dead were dead | A |
| And scoffed my faith to scorn | B |
| I found him at a tulip bed | A |
| When I passed by at morn | B |
| 'O ho ' said I 'the frost is near | C |
| And mist is on the hills | D |
| And yet I find you planting here | E |
| Tulips and daffodils ' | F |
| ''Tis time to plant them now ' he said | A |
| 'If they shall bloom in Spring' | G |
| 'But every bulb ' said I 'seems dead | A |
| And such an ugly thing ' | F |
| 'The pulse of life I cannot feel | H |
| The skin is dried and brown | I |
| Now look ' a bulb beneath my heel | H |
| I crushed and trampled down | I |
| In anger then he said to me | J |
| 'You've killed a lovely thing | G |
| A scarlet blossom that would be | J |
| Some morning in the Spring ' | F |
| 'Last night a greater sin was thine ' | F |
| To him I slowly said | A |
| 'You trampled on the dead of mine | K |
| And told me they are dead | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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