The Garden Of Adonis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE FGFGHII JKJKKLL MNMNNDD EOPOQDD RSRQQTT UEVPEDD| The Garden of Life in Spenser's 'Faerie Queene ' | A |
| IT is no fabled garden in the skies | B |
| But bloometh here this is no world of death | C |
| And nothing that once liveth ever dies | B |
| And naught that breathes can ever cease to breathe | D |
| And naught that bloometh ever withereth | D |
| The gods can ne'er take back their gifts from men | E |
| They gave us life they cannot take again | E |
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| Who hath known Death and who hath seen his face | F |
| On what high mountain have ye met with him | G |
| Within what lowest valley is there trace | F |
| Of his feared footsteps in what forest dim | G |
| In what great city in what lonely ways | H |
| Nay there is no such god but one called Change | I |
| And all he does is beautiful and strange | I |
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| It is but Change that lays our darlings low | J |
| And though we doubt and fear forsakes them not | K |
| Where red lips smiled do sweetest roses blow | J |
| And star flowers bloom above the lovely spot | K |
| Where gleamed the eyes with blue forget me not | K |
| And through the grasses runs the same wave there | L |
| We knew of old within the golden hair | L |
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| Dig in the earth ye shall not surely find | M |
| Death or death's semblance only roots of flowers | N |
| And all fair goodly things there live enshrined | M |
| With the foundations of the glad green bowers | N |
| Through which the sunshine comes in golden showers | N |
| And all the blossoms that this earth enwreathe | D |
| Are for assurance that there is no death | D |
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| O mother raise thy tear bathed lids again | E |
| Thy child died not he only liveth more | O |
| His soul is in the sunshine and the rain | P |
| His life is in the waters and the shore | O |
| He is around thee all the wide world o'er | Q |
| The daisy thou hast plucked smiles back at thee | D |
| Because it doth again its mother see | D |
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| What noble deed that ever lived is dead | R |
| Or yet hath lost its power to inspire | S |
| Courage in hearts that sicken and to shed | R |
| New faith and hope when hands and footsteps tire | Q |
| And make sad downcast eyes look upward higher | Q |
| Yea all men see and know it whence it came | T |
| It purifies them like a burning flame | T |
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| And dreams What dreams were ever lost and gone | U |
| But wandering in strange lands we found again | E |
| When least we think of these dear birdlings flown | V |
| We find that bright and fresh they still remain | P |
| The garden of all life is round us then | E |
| And he is blind who doth not know and see | D |
| And praise the gods for immortality | D |
Emma Lazarus
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