Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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The Haunted Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDDBCCCAEEEAFFFC CCCDGGGHIIIHJJJJCCCJ

THERE a tattered marigoldA
And dead asters manifoldA
Showed him where the garden oldA
Of time bloomedB
Briar and thistle overgrewC
Corners where the rose once blewD
Where the phlox of every hueD
Lay entombedB
Here a coreopsis flowerC
Pushed its disc above a bowerC
Where once poured a starry showerC
Bronze and goldA
And a twisted hollyhockE
And the remnant of a stockE
Struggled up 'mid burr and dockE
Through the moldA
Flower pots with mossy cloakF
Strewed a place beneath an oakF
Where the garden bench lay brokeF
By the treeC
And he thought of her who hereC
Sat with him but yesteryearC
Her whose presence now seemed nearC
StealthilyD
And the garden seemed to lookG
For her coming Petals shookG
On the spot where with her bookG
Oft she satH
Suddenly there blew a windI
And across the garden blindI
Like a black thought in a mindI
Stole a catH
Lean as hunger like the shadeJ
Of a dream a ghost unlaidJ
Through the weeds its way it madeJ
Gaunt and oldJ
Once 't was hers He looked to seeC
If she followed to the treeC
Then recalled how long since sheC
Had been moldJ

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