Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG HIHI AJAJ KLKL MAMA NONP| O painter of the fruits and flowers | A |
| We own wise design | B |
| Where these human hands of ours | A |
| May share work of Thine | B |
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| Apart from Thee we plant in vain | C |
| The root and sow the seed | D |
| Thy early and Thy later rain | C |
| Thy sun and dew we need | D |
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| Our toil is sweet with thankfulness | A |
| Our burden is our boon | E |
| The curse of Earth's gray morning is | A |
| The blessing of its noon | E |
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| Why search the wide world everywhere | F |
| For Eden's unknown ground | G |
| That garden of the primal pair | F |
| May nevermore be found | G |
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| But blest by Thee our patient toil | H |
| May right the ancient wrong | I |
| And give to every clime and soil | H |
| The beauty lost so long | I |
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| Our homestead flowers and fruited trees | A |
| May Eden's orchard shame | J |
| We taste the tempting sweets of these | A |
| Like Eve without her blame | J |
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| And North and South and East and West | K |
| The pride of every zone | L |
| The fairest rarest and the best | K |
| May all be made our own | L |
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| Its earliest shrines the young world sought | M |
| In hill groves and in bowers | A |
| The fittest offerings thither brought | M |
| Were Thy own fruits and flowers | A |
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| And still with reverent hands we cull | N |
| Thy gifts each year renewed | O |
| The good is always beautiful | N |
| The beautiful is good | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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