The Despot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJGG KKLL DDMM| The garden mould was damp and chill | A |
| Winter had had his brutal will | A |
| Since over all the year's content | B |
| His devastating legions went | B |
| - | |
| Then Spring's bright banners came there woke | C |
| Millions of little growing folk | C |
| Who thrilled to know the winter done | D |
| Gave thanks and strove towards the sun | D |
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| Not so the elect reserved and slow | E |
| To trust a stranger sun and grow | E |
| They hesitated cowered and hid | F |
| Waiting to see what others did | F |
| - | |
| Yet even they a little grew | G |
| Put out prim leaves to day and dew | G |
| And lifted level formal heads | H |
| In their appointed garden beds | H |
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| The gardener came he coldly loved | I |
| The flowers that lived as he approved | J |
| That duly decorously grew | G |
| As he the despot meant them to | G |
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| He saw the wildlings flower more brave | K |
| And bright than any cultured slave | K |
| Yet since he had not set them there | L |
| He hated them for being fair | L |
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| So he uprooted one by one | D |
| The free things that had loved the sun | D |
| The happy eager fruitful seeds | M |
| That had not known that they were weeds | M |
Edith Nesbit
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