The Old Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Old Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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I stood in an ancient garden	B
With high red walls around	C
Over them grey and green lichens	D
In shadowy arabesque wound	C
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The topmost climbing blossoms	E
On fields kine haunted looked out	F
But within were shelter and shadow	G
With daintiest odours about	F
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There were alleys and lurking arbours	E
Deep glooms into which to dive	H
The lawns were as soft as fleeces	E
Of daisies I counted but five	H
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The sun dial was so aged	I
It had gathered a thoughtful grace	E
'Twas the round about of the shadow	G
That so had furrowed its face	E
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The flowers were all of the oldest	J
That ever in garden sprung	K
Red and blood red and dark purple	L
The rose lamps flaming hung	K
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Along the borders fringed	J
With broad thick edges of box	E
Stood foxgloves and gorgeous poppies	E
And great eyed hollyhocks	E
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There were junipers trimmed into castles	E
And ash trees bowed into tents	E
For the garden though ancient and pensive	M
Still wore quaint ornaments	E
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It was all so stately fantastic	N
Its old wind hardly would stir	O
Young Spring when she merrily entered	J
Scarce felt it a place for her	O
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II	A
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I stood in the summer morning	P
Under a cavernous yew	Q
The sun was gently climbing	P
And the scents rose after the dew	Q
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I saw the wise old mansion	B
Like a cow in the noon day heat	J
Stand in a lake of shadows	E
That rippled about its feet	J
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Its windows were oriel and latticed	J
Lowly and wide and fair	R
And its chimneys like clustered pillars	E
Stood up in the thin blue air	R
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White doves like the thoughts of a lady	J
Haunted it all about	J
With a train of green and blue comets	E
The peacock went marching stout	J
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The birds in the trees were singing	P
A song as old as the world	J
Of love and green leaves and sunshine	S
And winter folded and furled	J
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They sang that never was sadness	E
But it melted and passed away	T
They sang that never was darkness	E
But in came the conquering day	T
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And I knew that a maiden somewhere	R
In a low oak panelled room	U
In a nimbus of shining garments	E
An aureole of white browed bloom	U
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Looked out on the garden dreamy	J
And knew not it was old	J
Looked past the gray and the sombre	R
Saw but the green and the gold	J
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III	A
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I stood in the gathering twilight	J
In a gently blowing wind	J
Then the house looked half uneasy	J
Like one that was left behind	J
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The roses had lost their redness	E
And cold the grass had grown	V
At roost were the pigeons and peacock	W
The sun dial seemed a head stone	V
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The world by the gathering twilight	J
In a gauzy dusk was clad	J
Something went into my spirit	J
And made me a little sad	J
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Grew and gathered the twilight	J
It filled my heart and brain	X
The sadness grew more than sadness	E
It turned to a gentle pain	X
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Browned and brooded the twilight	J
Pervaded absorbed the calm	Y
Till it seemed for some human sorrows	E
There could not be any balm	Y
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IV	M
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Then I knew that up a staircase	E
Which untrod will yet creak and shake	Z
Deep in a distant chamber	R
A ghost was coming awake	Z
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In the growing darkness growing	P
Growing till her eyes appear	R
Like spots of a deeper twilight	J
But more transparent clear	R
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Thin as hot air up trembling	P
Thin as sun molten crape	A2
An ethereal shadow of something	P
Is taking a certain shape	A2
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A shape whose hands hang listless	E
Let hang its disordered hair	R
A shape whose bosom is heaving	P
But draws not in the air	R
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And I know what time the moonlight	J
On her nest of shadows will sit	J
Out on the dim lawn gliding	P
That shadowy shadow will flit	J
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V	M
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The moon is dreaming upward	J
From a sea of cloud and gleam	B2
She looks as if she had seen me	M
Never but in a dream	B2
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Down the stair I know she is coming	P
Bare footed lifting her train	X
It creaks not she hears it creaking	P
Where once there was a brain	X
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Out at yon side door she's coming	P
With a timid glance right and left	J
Her look is hopeless yet eager	R
The look of a heart bereft	J
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Across the lawn she is flitting	P
Her thin gown feels the wind	J
Are her white feet bending the grasses	E
Her hair is lifted behind	J
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VI	M
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Shall I stay to look on her nearer	R
Would she start and vanish away	T
Oh no she will never see me	M
Stand I near as I may	T
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It is not this wind she is feeling	P
Not this cool grass below	G
'Tis the wind and the grass of an evening	P
A hundred years ago	G
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She sees no roses darkling	G
No stately hollyhocks dim	C2
She is only thinking and dreaming	G
The garden the night and him	C2
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The unlit windows behind her	R
The timeless dial stone	V
The trees and the moon and the shadows	E
A hundred years agone	V
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'Tis a night for a ghostly lover	R
To haunt the best loved spot	J
Is he come in his dreams to this garden	V
I gaze but I see him not	J
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VII	M
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I will not look on her nearer	R
My heart would be torn in twain	V
From my eyes the garden would vanish	D2
In the falling of their rain	V
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I will not look on a sorrow	G
That darkens into despair	R
On the surge of a heart that cannot	J
Yet cannot cease to bear	R
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My soul to hers would be calling	G
She would hear no word it said	J
If I cried aloud in the stillness	E
She would never turn her head	J
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She is dreaming the sky above her	R
She is dreaming the earth below	G
This night she lost her lover	R
A hundred years ago	G