Garden-fancies - I. The Flower's Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFGHAHA A IJIJGKGK L MGMGGNGN L OPOPQRQR L SLSLGTGT| I | A |
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| Here's the garden she walked across | B |
| Arm in my arm such a short while since | C |
| Hark now I push its wicket the moss | B |
| Hinders the hinges and makes them wince | C |
| She must have reached this shrub ere she turned | D |
| As back with that murmur the wicket swung | E |
| For she laid the poor snail my chance foot spurned | D |
| To feed and forget it the leaves among | E |
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| II | A |
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| Down this side ofthe gravel walk | F |
| She went while her robe's edge brushed the box | G |
| And here she paused in her gracious talk | F |
| To point me a moth on the milk white flox | G |
| Roses ranged in valiant row | H |
| I will never think that she passed you by | A |
| She loves you noble roses I know | H |
| But yonder see where the rock plants lie | A |
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| III | A |
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| This flower she stopped at finger on lip | I |
| Stooped over in doubt as settling its claim | J |
| Till she gave me with pride to make no slip | I |
| Its soft meandering Spanish name | J |
| What a name Was it love or praise | G |
| Speech half asleep or song half awake | K |
| I must learn Spanish one of these days | G |
| Only for that slow sweet name's sake | K |
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| IV | L |
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| Roses if I live and do well | M |
| I may bring her one of these days | G |
| To fix you fast with as fine a spell | M |
| Fit you each with his Spanish phrase | G |
| But do not detain me now for she lingers | G |
| There like sunshine over the ground | N |
| And ever I see her soft white fingers | G |
| Searching after the bud she found | N |
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| V | L |
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| Flower you Spaniard look that you grow not | O |
| Stay as you are and be loved for ever | P |
| Bud if I kiss you 'tis that you blow not | O |
| Mind the shut pink mouth opens never | P |
| For while it pouts her fingers wrestle | Q |
| Twinkling the audacious leaves between | R |
| Till round they turn and down they nestle | Q |
| Is not the dear mark still to be seen | R |
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| VI | L |
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| Where I find her not beauties vanish | S |
| Whither I follow her beauties flee | L |
| Is there no method to tell her in Spanish | S |
| June's twice June since she breathed it with me | L |
| Come bud show me the least of her traces | G |
| Treasure my lady's lightest footfall | T |
| Ah you may flout and turn up your faces | G |
| Roses you are not so fair after all | T |
Robert Browning
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