The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE EGEG HIHI JEKE LMLM NONO EPEP QEQE EFEF| This Garden does not take my eyes | A |
| Though here you show how art of men | B |
| Can purchase Nature at a price | C |
| Would stock old Paradise again | B |
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| These glories while you dote upon | D |
| I envy not your spring nor pride | E |
| Nay boast the summer all your own | F |
| My thoughts with less are satisified | E |
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| Give me a little plot of ground | E |
| Where might I with the Sun agree | G |
| Though every day he walk the round | E |
| My Garden he should seldom see | G |
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| Those Tulips that such wealth display | H |
| To court my eye shall lose their name | I |
| Though now they listen as if they | H |
| Expected I should praise their name | I |
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| But I would see my self appear | J |
| Within the Violet's drooping head | E |
| On which a melancholy tear | K |
| The discontented morn hath shed | E |
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| Within their buds let Roses sleep | L |
| And virgin Lilies on their stem | M |
| Till sighs from lovers glide and creep | L |
| Into their leaves to open them | M |
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| I'th'center of my ground compose | N |
| Of Bays and Yew my summer room | O |
| Which may so oft as I repose | N |
| Present my arbor and my tomb | O |
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| No woman here shall find me out | E |
| Or if a chance do bring one hither | P |
| I'll be secure for round about | E |
| I'll moat it with my eyes' foul weather | P |
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| No bird shall live within my pale | Q |
| To charm me with their shames of art | E |
| Unless some wandering Nightingale | Q |
| Come here to sing and break her heart | E |
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| Upon whose death I'll try to write | E |
| An epitaph in some funeral stone | F |
| So sad and true it may invite | E |
| My self to die and prove mine own | F |
James Shirley
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