Samuel Gardner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGHIJKLMENOOLP Q| I who kept the greenhouse | A |
| Lover of trees and flowers | B |
| Oft in life saw this umbrageous elm | C |
| Measuring its generous branches with my eye | D |
| And listened to its rejoicing leaves | E |
| Lovingly patting each other | F |
| With sweet olian whispers | B |
| And well they might | G |
| For the roots had grown so wide and deep | H |
| That the soil of the hill could not withhold | I |
| Aught of its virtue enriched by rain | J |
| And warmed by the sun | K |
| But yielded it all to the thrifty roots | L |
| Through which it was drawn and whirled to the trunk | M |
| And thence to the branches and into the leaves | E |
| Wherefrom the breeze took life and sang | N |
| Now I an under tenant of the earth can see | O |
| That the branches of a tree | O |
| Spread no wider than its roots | L |
| And how shall the soul of a man | P |
| Be larger than the life he has lived | Q |
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