The Garden Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGEGEFHFH IEIEJKKKLCLC| There is an isle in an unfurrowed sea | A |
| That I wot of whereon the whole year round | B |
| The apple blossoms and the rosebuds be | A |
| In early blooming and a many sound | B |
| Of ten stringed lute and most mellifluous breath | C |
| Of silver flute and mellow half heard horn | D |
| Making unmeasured music Thither Death | C |
| Coming like Love takes all things in the morn | D |
| Of tenderest life and being a delicate god | E |
| In his own garden takes each delicate thing | F |
| Unstained unmellowed immature untrod | E |
| Tremulous betwixt the summer and the spring | F |
| The rosebud ere it come to be a rose | G |
| The blossom ere it win to be a fruit | E |
| The virginal snowdrop and the dove that knows | G |
| Only one dove for lover all the loot | E |
| Of young soft things and all the harvesting | F |
| Of unripe flowers Never comes the moon | H |
| To matron fulness here no child bearing | F |
| Vexes desire and the sun knows no noon | H |
| But all the happy dwellers of that place | I |
| Are reckless children gotten on Delight | E |
| By Beauty that is thrall to Death no grace | I |
| No natural sweet they lack a chrysolite | E |
| Of perfect beauty each No wisdom comes | J |
| To mar their early folly no false laws | K |
| Man made for man no mouthing prudence numbs | K |
| Their green unthought or gives their licence pause | K |
| Young animals young flowers they live and grow | L |
| And die before their sweet emblossomed breath | C |
| Has learnt to sigh save like a lover's Oh | L |
| How sweet is Youth how delicate is Death | C |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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