The Old Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDEE AFGGG HHAA IIJJJ KKLMM NNOOO| Spurge and sea pink hyssop blue | A |
| Dragonhead of purple hue | A |
| Catnip frosted green and gray | B |
| With blue butterflies a sway | B |
| These may point you out the way | B |
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| These and Summer's acolytes | C |
| Crickets singing days and nights | C |
| Tell you the old road again | D |
| And adown the tangled lane | E |
| Lead you to her window pane | E |
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| Goldenrod and goldenglow | A |
| Crowd the gate in which you go | F |
| To your arm they cling and catch | G |
| Kiss the hand that lifts the latch | G |
| Guide you to her garden patch | G |
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| O'er the fence the hollyhock | H |
| Leans to greet you and the stock | H |
| Looks as if it thought 'I knew | A |
| You were coming Gave the cue | A |
| To the place to welcome you ' | - |
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| And the crumpled marigold | I |
| And the dahlia big and bold | I |
| With Sweet Williams white and red | J |
| Nod at you a drowsy head | J |
| From the sleepy flowerbed | J |
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| Where all day the brown bees croon | K |
| Honey drunk and stars and moon | K |
| All night long lean down to hear | L |
| In the silence far and near | M |
| Whippoorwills a calling clear | M |
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| While adown the dewy dark | N |
| Flits a flame a firefly spark | N |
| Leading to a place of myrrh | O |
| Where in lace and lavender | O |
| Waits the Loveliness of her | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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