The Gentle Gardener Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE ADFDGHBH IJDJKEIE| I'd like to leave but daffodills | A |
| to mark my little way | B |
| To leave but tulips red and white | C |
| behind me as I stray | B |
| I'd like to pass away from earth | D |
| and feel I'd left behind | E |
| But roses and forget me nots | A |
| for all who come to find | E |
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| I'd like to sow the barren spots | A |
| with all the flowers of earth | D |
| To leave a path where those who come | F |
| should find but gentle mirth | D |
| And when at last I'm called upon | G |
| to join the heavenly throng | H |
| I'd like to feel along my way | B |
| I'd left no sign of wrong | H |
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| And yet the cares are many | I |
| and the hours of toil are few | J |
| There is not time enough on earth | D |
| for all I'd like to do | J |
| But having lived and having toiled | K |
| I'd like the world to find | E |
| Some little touch of beauty | I |
| that my soul had left behind | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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