The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEFG GDBHIBBJ KLBMNBBBOMPQ| Bountiful Givers | A |
| I look along the years | B |
| And see the flowers you threw | C |
| Anemones | B |
| And sprigs of gray | D |
| Sparse heather of the rocks | B |
| Or a wild violet | E |
| Or daisy of a daisied field | F |
| But each your best | G |
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| I might have worn them on my breast | G |
| To wilt in the long day | D |
| I might have stemmed them in a narrow vase | B |
| And watched each petal sallowing | H |
| I might have held them so mechanically | I |
| Till the wind winnowed all the leaves | B |
| And left upon my hands | B |
| A little smear of dust | J |
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| Instead | K |
| I hid them in the soft warm loam | L |
| Of a dim shadowed place | B |
| Deep | M |
| In a still cool grotto | N |
| Lit only by the memories of stars | B |
| And the wide and luminous eyes | B |
| Of dead poets | B |
| That love me and that I love | O |
| Deep deep | M |
| Where none may see not even ye who gave | P |
| About my soul your garden beautiful | Q |
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