An Old-fashioned Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE G HBCB| Strange is it not She was making her garden | A |
| Planting the old fashioned flowers that day | B |
| Bleeding hearts tender and bachelors buttons | C |
| Spreading the seeds in the old fashioned way | B |
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| Just in the old fashioned way too our quarrel | D |
| Grew until angrily she set me free | E |
| Planting indeed bleeding hearts for the two of us | F |
| Ordaining bachelor's buttons for me | E |
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| Envoi | G |
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| Strange was it not But seeds planted in anger | H |
| Sour in the earth and ere long a decay | B |
| Withered the bleeding hearts blighted the buttons | C |
| And we were wed in the old fashioned way | B |
Ellis Parker Butler
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