Elegy In A Botanic Gardens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFCCGHGCBIGJKGL JGMNOGO| THE smell of birds' nests faintly burning | A |
| Is autumn In the autumn I came | B |
| Where spring had used me better | C |
| To the clear red pebbles and the men of stone | D |
| And foundered beetles to the broken Meleager | C |
| And thousands of white circles drifting past | E |
| Cold suns in water even to the dead grove | F |
| Where we had kissed to the Tristania tree | C |
| Where we had kissed so awkwardly | C |
| Noted by swans with damp accusing eyes | G |
| All gone to day only the leaves remain | H |
| Gaunt paddles ribbed with herringbones | G |
| Of watermelon pink Never before | C |
| Had I assented to the hateful name | B |
| Meryta Macrophylla on a tin tag | I |
| That was no time for botany But now the schools | G |
| The horticulturists come forth | J |
| Triumphantly with Latin So be it now | K |
| Meryta Macrophylla and the old house | G |
| Ringed with black stone no Georgian Headlong Hall | L |
| With glass eye windows winking candles forth | J |
| Stuffed with French horns globes air pumps telescopes | G |
| And Cupid in a wig playing the flute | M |
| But truly and without escape | N |
| THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM | O |
| Repeated dryly in Roman capitals | G |
| THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM | O |
Kenneth Slessor
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