Our Garden. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ EEKKBBLLMMNNOOPPQRSS TTEEEUVOOWWEELLXYFF ZZA2A2| The winter is gone and at first Jack and I were sad | A |
| Because of the snow man's melting but now we are glad | A |
| For the spring has come and it's warm and we're allowed to garden in the afternoon | B |
| And summer is coming and oh how lovely our flowers will be in June | B |
| We are so fond of flowers it makes us quite happy to think | C |
| Of our beds all colours blue white yellow purple and pink | C |
| Scarlet lilac and crimson And we're fond of sweet scents as well | D |
| And mean to have pinks roses sweet peas mignonette clove carnations musk and everything good to smell | D |
| Lavender rosemary and we should like a lemon scented verbena and a big myrtle tree | E |
| And then if we could get an old preserved ginger pot and some bay salt we could make pot pourri | E |
| Jack and I have a garden though it's not so large as the big one you know | F |
| But whatever can be got to grow in a garden we mean to grow | F |
| We've got Bachelor's Buttons and London Pride and Old Man and everything that's nice | G |
| And last year Jack sowed green peas for our dolls' dinners but they were eaten up by the mice | G |
| And he would plant potatoes in furrows which made the garden in a mess | H |
| So this year we mean to have no kitchen garden but mustard and cress | H |
| One of us plants and the other waters but Jack likes the watering pot | I |
| And then when my turn comes to water he says it's too hot | I |
| We sometimes quarrel about the garden and once Jack hit me with the spade | J |
| So we settled to divide it in two by a path up the middle and that's made | J |
| We want some yellow sand now to make the walk pretty but there's none about here | E |
| So we mean to get some in the old carpet bag if we go to the seaside this year | E |
| On Monday we went to the wood and got primrose plants and a sucker of a dog rose | K |
| It looks like a green stick in the middle of the bed at present but wait till it blows | K |
| The primroses were in full flower and the rose ought to flower soon | B |
| You've no idea how lovely they are in that wood in June | B |
| The primroses look quite withered now I am sorry to say | L |
| But that is not our fault but Nurse's and it shows how hard it is to garden when you can't have your own way | L |
| We planted them carefully and were just going to water them all in a lump | M |
| When Nurse fetched us both indoors and put us to bed for wetting our pinafores at the pump | M |
| It's very hard and I'm sure the gardener's plants wouldn't grow any better than ours | N |
| If Nurse fetched him in and sent him to bed just when he was going to water his flowers | N |
| We've got Blue Nemophila and Mignonette and Venus's Looking glass and many other seeds | O |
| The Nemophila comes up spotted which is how we know it from the weeds | O |
| At least it's sure to come up if the hens haven't scratched it up first | P |
| But when it is up the cats roll on it and that is the worst | P |
| I sowed a ring of sweet peas and the last time I looked they were coming nicely on | Q |
| Just sprouting white and I put them safely back but when Jack looked he found they were gone | R |
| Jack made a great many cuttings but he has had rather bad luck | S |
| I've looked at them every day myself and not one of them has struck | S |
| The gardener gave me a fine moss rose but Jack took it to his side | T |
| I kept moving it back but he took it again and at last it died | T |
| But now we've settled to dig up the path and have the bed as it was before | E |
| So everything will belong to us both and we shan't ever quarrel any more | E |
| It is such a long time too to wait for the sand and perhaps sea sand does best on the shore | E |
| We're going to take everything up for it can't hurt the plants to stand on the grass for a minute | U |
| And you really can't possibly rake a bed smooth with so many things in it | V |
| We shall dig it all over and get leaf mould from the wood and hoe up the weeds | O |
| And when it's tidy we shall plant and put labels and strike cuttings and sow seeds | O |
| We are so fond of flowers Jack and I often dream at night | W |
| Of getting up and finding our garden ablaze with all colours blue red yellow and white | W |
| And Midsummer's coming and big brother Tom will sit under the tree | E |
| With his book and Mary will beg sweet nosegays of Jack and me | E |
| The worst is we often start for the seaside about Midsummer Day | L |
| And no one takes care of our gardens whilst we are away | L |
| But if we sow lots of seeds and take plenty of cuttings before we leave home | X |
| When we come back our flowers will be all in full bloom | Y |
| Bright bright sunshine above and sweet sweet flowers below | F |
| Come oh Midsummer quickly come and go quickly Midsummer go | F |
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| P S It is so tiresome Jack wants to build a green house now | Z |
| He has found some bits of broken glass and an old window frame and he says he knows how | Z |
| I tell him there's not glass enough but he says there's lots | A2 |
| And he's taken all the plants that belong to the bed and put them in pots | A2 |
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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