My Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VWVW FXFX YZYZ A2B2A2C2 A2D2E2D2 F2G2F2If 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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