The Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGH IIJJ KKLL MMNO PQRR SSTU MMVW| When skies are blue and days are bright | A |
| A kitchen garden's my delight | A |
| Set round with rows of decent box | B |
| And blowsy girls of hollyhocks | B |
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| Before the lark his Lauds hath done | C |
| And ere the corncrake's southward gone | D |
| Before the thrush good night hath said | E |
| And the young Summer's put to bed | E |
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| The currant bushes' spicy smell | F |
| Homely and honest likes me well | F |
| The while on strawberries I feast | G |
| And raspberries the sun hath kissed | H |
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| Beans all a blowing by a row | I |
| Of hives that great with honey go | I |
| With mignonette and heaths to yield | J |
| The plundering bee his honey field | J |
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| Sweet herbs in plenty blue borage | K |
| And the delicious mint and sage | K |
| Rosemary marjoram and rue | L |
| And thyme to scent the winter through | L |
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| Here are small apples growing round | M |
| And apricots all golden gowned | M |
| And plums that presently will flush | N |
| And show their bush a Burning Bush | O |
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| Cherries in nets against the wall | P |
| Where Master Thrush his madrigal | Q |
| Sings and makes oath a churl is he | R |
| Who grudges cherries for a fee | R |
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| Lavender sweet briar orris Here | S |
| Shall Beauty make her pomander | S |
| Her sweet balls for to lay in clothes | T |
| That wrap her as the leaves the rose | U |
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| Take roses red and lilies white | M |
| A kitchen garden's my delight | M |
| Its gillyflowers and phlox and cloves | V |
| And its tall cote of irised doves | W |
Katharine Tynan
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