The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGG HHIJKL MMNOPP QQRRIJ GGBBAA| I know a garden like a child | A |
| Clean and new washed and reconciled | A |
| It grows its own sweet way yet still | B |
| Has guidance of some tender will | B |
| That clips confines its wilder mood | C |
| And makes it happy being good | D |
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| Around the lordly mountains stand | E |
| For this is an enchanted land | E |
| As though their splendours stood to grace | F |
| This little lovely garden place | F |
| Looking with wise and keeping eyes | G |
| Upon the garden sanctities | G |
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| Box borders edge each little bed | H |
| Paths narrow for a child to tread | H |
| Divide the kitchen garden dear | I |
| And sweet with musk and lavender | J |
| And water mints and beans in bloom | K |
| Be sure the honeybee's at home | L |
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| How should I tell in a sweet list | M |
| Of beauties rose and amethyst | M |
| The little water garden cool | N |
| On sultry days and beautiful | O |
| The wall garden the shade the sun | P |
| Since they are lovely every one | P |
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| Hot honey of the pines is sweet | Q |
| And when the day's at three o'clock heat | Q |
| A winding walk will you invite | R |
| To a new garden out of sight | R |
| And a green seat is set so near | I |
| The sluggish stealing backwater | J |
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| The Spirit of the garden plays | G |
| At hide and seek an hundred ways | G |
| And when you've captured her she will | B |
| Elude you calling backward still | B |
| A silver echo a sweet child | A |
| Demure and lovesome gay and wild | A |
Katharine Tynan
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