The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH IJKJ LMLM NOPO QRQR STUT| A Garden contemplation suits | A |
| And may instruction yield | B |
| Sweeter than all the flow'rs and fruits | A |
| With which the spot is filled | C |
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| Eden was Adam's dwelling place | D |
| While blest with innocence | E |
| But sin o'erwhelmed him with disgrace | D |
| And drove the rebel thence | F |
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| Oft as the garden walk we tread | G |
| We should bemoan his fall | H |
| The trespass of our legal head | G |
| In ruin plunged us all | H |
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| The garden of Gethsemane | I |
| The second Adam saw | J |
| Oppressed with woe to set us free | K |
| From the avenging law | J |
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| How stupid we who can forget | L |
| With gardens in our sight | M |
| His agonies and bloody sweat | L |
| In that tremendous night | M |
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| His church as a fair garden stands | N |
| Which walls of love enclose | O |
| Each tree is planted by his hand | P |
| And by his blessing grows | O |
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| Believing hearts are gardens too | Q |
| For grace has sown its seeds | R |
| Where once by nature nothing grew | Q |
| But thorns and worthless weeds | R |
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| Such themes to those who Jesus love | S |
| May constant joys afford | T |
| And make a barren desert prove | U |
| The garden of the Lord | T |
John Newton
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