The Cabbage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFEGDHGDH| Here is a tale for any one who wishes | A |
| There grew a cabbage once among the flowers | B |
| A plain broad cabbage a good wench whose hours | B |
| Were kitchen busy with plebeian dishes | C |
| The rose and lily toilless without mottle | D |
| Patricians born despised her 'How unpleasant ' | E |
| They cried 'What odour Worse than any peasant | F |
| Who soils God's air Give us our smelling bottle ' | E |
| There came a gentleman who owned the garden | G |
| Looking about him at both flower and edible | D |
| Admiring here and there a simple sinner | H |
| Who sought some bud to be his heart's sweet warden | G |
| But passed the flowers and took it seems incredible | D |
| That cabbage But a man must have his dinner | H |
Madison Julius Cawein
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