Margaret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDD EFEFGHH IJIKJEE| I KNOW a garden where white lilies grow | A |
| Under the grey sweet laden apple boughs | B |
| It is a garden where the roses blow | A |
| And honeysuckle covers half the house | C |
| O happy garden do you keep the vows | B |
| Breathed in your quiet ear beneath the rose | D |
| Or do you tell the tale to each soft wind that blows | D |
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| Across your grassy paths she used to stray | E |
| She moved among you like a living flower | F |
| Her beauty drank your beauty every day | E |
| Your beauty decked her beauty every hour | F |
| You gave her rose and lily for a dower | G |
| With all sweet flowers and fruits your bosom bore | H |
| She took them all and now she comes not any more | H |
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| O garden if you breathe such secret things | I |
| To the south wind who loves you tell him this | J |
| To spread the scented softness of his wings | I |
| And seek that other garden where she is | K |
| And bid him bear no blossom and no kiss | J |
| Only dear garden tell the wind to say | E |
| How grey the world is grown since Margaret went away | E |
Edith Nesbit
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