New College Gardens, Oxford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GCHC IJIKKLKL| ON this old lawn where lost hours pass | A |
| Across the shadows dark with dew | B |
| Where autumn on the thick sweet grass | A |
| Has laid a weary leaf or two | B |
| When the young morning keenly sweet | C |
| Breathes secrets to the silent air | D |
| Happy is he whose lingering feet | C |
| May wander lonely there | D |
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| The enchantment of the dreaming limes | E |
| The magic of the quiet hours | F |
| Breathe unheard tales of other times | E |
| And other destinies than ours | F |
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| The feet that long ago walked here | G |
| Still noiseless walk beside our feet | C |
| Poor ghosts who found this garden dear | H |
| And found the morning sweet | C |
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| Age weeps that it no more may hold | I |
| The heart ache that youth clasps so close | J |
| Pain finely shaped in pleasure's mould | I |
| A thorn deep hidden in a rose | K |
| Here is the immortal thorny rose | K |
| That may in no new garden grow | L |
| Its root is in the hearts of those | K |
| Who walked here long ago | L |
Edith Nesbit
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