My Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VWVW FXFX YZYZ A2B2A2C2 A2D2E2D2 F2G2F2| If I could put my woods in song | A |
| And tell what's there enjoyed | B |
| All men would to my gardens throng | A |
| And leave the cities void | B |
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| In my plot no tulips blow | C |
| Snow loving pines and oaks instead | D |
| And rank the savage maples grow | C |
| From Spring's faint flush to Autumn red | D |
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| My garden is a forest ledge | E |
| Which older forests bound | F |
| The banks slope down to the blue lake edge | E |
| Then plunge to depths profound | F |
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| Here once the Deluge ploughed | G |
| Laid the terraces one by one | H |
| Ebbing later whence it flowed | I |
| They bleach and dry in the sun | H |
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| The sowers made haste to depart | J |
| The wind and the birds which sowed it | K |
| Not for fame nor by rules of art | J |
| Planted these and tempests flowed it | K |
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| Waters that wash my garden side | L |
| Play not in Nature's lawful web | M |
| They heed not moon or solar tide | L |
| Five years elapse from flood to ebb | M |
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| Hither hasted in old time Jove | N |
| And every god none did refuse | O |
| And be sure at last came Love | N |
| And after Love the Muse | O |
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| Keen ears can catch a syllable | P |
| As if one spake to another | Q |
| In the hemlocks tall untamable | P |
| And what the whispering grasses smother | Q |
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| olian harps in the pine | R |
| Ring with the song of the Fates | S |
| Infant Bacchus in the vine | R |
| Far distant yet his chorus waits | S |
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| Canst thou copy in verse one chime | T |
| Of the wood bell's peal and cry | U |
| Write in a book the morning's prime | T |
| Or match with words that tender sky | U |
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| Wonderful verse of the gods | V |
| Of one import of varied tone | W |
| They chant the bliss of their abodes | V |
| To man imprisoned in his own | W |
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| Ever the words of the gods resound | F |
| But the porches of man's ear | X |
| Seldom in this low life's round | F |
| Are unsealed that he may hear | X |
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| Wandering voices in the air | Y |
| And murmurs in the wold | Z |
| Speak what I cannot declare | Y |
| Yet cannot all withhold | Z |
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| When the shadow fell on the lake | A2 |
| The whirlwind in ripples wrote | B2 |
| Air bells of fortune that shine and break | A2 |
| And omens above thought | C2 |
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| But the meanings cleave to the lake | A2 |
| Cannot be carried in book or urn | D2 |
| Go thy ways now come later back | E2 |
| On waves and hedges still they burn | D2 |
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| These the fates of men forecast | F2 |
| Of better men than live to day | G2 |
| If who can read them comes at last | F2 |
| He will spell in the sculpture 'Stay ' | - |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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