Sheltered Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGH AIJ KLMNOP QRSTUV WKXYZA2TB2C2 LD2RE2TTF2 G2H2I2XJ2K2L2M2N2O2P 2Q2R2S2O LG2T2M| I have had enough | A |
| I gasp for breath | B |
| - | |
| Every way ends every road | C |
| every foot path leads at last | D |
| to the hill crest | E |
| then you retrace your steps | F |
| or find the same slope on the other side | G |
| precipitate | H |
| - | |
| I have had enough | A |
| border pinks clove pinks wax lilies | I |
| herbs sweet cress | J |
| - | |
| O for some sharp swish of a branch | K |
| there is no scent of resin | L |
| in this place | M |
| no taste of bark of coarse weeds | N |
| aromatic astringent | O |
| only border on border of scented pinks | P |
| - | |
| Have you seen fruit under cover | Q |
| that wanted light | R |
| pears wadded in cloth | S |
| protected from the frost | T |
| melons almost ripe | U |
| smothered in straw | V |
| - | |
| Why not let the pears cling | W |
| to the empty branch | K |
| All your coaxing will only make | X |
| a bitter fruit | Y |
| let them cling ripen of themselves | Z |
| test their own worth | A2 |
| nipped shrivelled by the frost | T |
| to fall at last but fair | B2 |
| With a russet coat | C2 |
| - | |
| Or the melon | L |
| let it bleach yellow | D2 |
| in the winter light | R |
| even tart to the taste | E2 |
| it is better to taste of frost | T |
| the exquisite frost | T |
| than of wadding and of dead grass | F2 |
| - | |
| For this beauty | G2 |
| beauty without strength | H2 |
| chokes out life | I2 |
| I want wind to break | X |
| scatter these pink stalks | J2 |
| snap off their spiced heads | K2 |
| fling them about with dead leaves | L2 |
| spread the paths with twigs | M2 |
| limbs broken off | N2 |
| trail great pine branches | O2 |
| hurled from some far wood | P2 |
| right across the melon patch | Q2 |
| break pear and quince | R2 |
| leave half trees torn twisted | S2 |
| but showing the fight was valiant | O |
| - | |
| O to blot out this garden | L |
| to forget to find a new beauty | G2 |
| in some terrible | T2 |
| wind tortured place | M |
H. D.
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