Garden Francies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE F GHGHIJIJ F KAKAHLHL M NHNHHOHO M PQPQRSRS M TMTMHUHU H MVMVWQWQ M XSYSZA2ZA2 M HB2HB2QC2QC2 M D2E2D2F2MHMH M HIHILHLH M SQSQIHIH M HQHQHG2HF2 M H2H2H2H2HI2HI2 H G2MG2MJ2H2J2H2I THE FLOWER'S NAME | 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 | F |
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Down this side ofthe gravel walk | G |
She went while her rope's edge brushed the box | H |
And here she paused in her gracious talk | G |
To point me a moth on the milk white phlox | H |
Roses ranged in valiant row | I |
I will never think that she passed you by | J |
She loves you noble roses I know | I |
But yonder see where the rock plants lie | J |
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III | F |
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This flower she stopped at finger on lip | K |
Stooped over in doubt as settling its claim | A |
Till she gave me with pride to make no slip | K |
Its soft meandering Spanish name | A |
What a name Was it love or praise | H |
Speech half asleep or song half awake | L |
I must learn Spanish one of these days | H |
Only for that slow sweet name's sake | L |
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IV | M |
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Roses if I live and do well | N |
I may bring her one of these days | H |
To fix you fast with as fine a spell | N |
Fit you each with his Spanish phrase | H |
But do not detain me now for she lingers | H |
There like sunshine over the ground | O |
And ever I see her soft white fingers | H |
Searching after the bud she found | O |
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V | M |
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Flower you Spaniard look that you grow not | P |
Stay as you are and be loved for ever | Q |
Bud if I kiss you 'tis that you blow not | P |
Mind the shut pink mouth opens never | Q |
For while it pouts her fingers wrestle | R |
Twinkling the audacious leaves between | S |
Till round they turn and down they nestle | R |
Is not the dear mark still to be seen | S |
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VI | M |
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Where I find her not beauties vanish | T |
Whither I follow ber beauties flee | M |
Is there no method to tell her in Spanish | T |
June's twice June since she breathed it with me | M |
Come bud show me the least of her traces | H |
Treasure my lady's lightest footfall | U |
Ah you may flout and turn up your faces | H |
Roses you are not so fair after all | U |
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II SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS | H |
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Plague take all your pedants say I | M |
He who wrote what I hold in my hand | V |
Centuries back was so good as to die | M |
Leaving this rubbish to cumber the land | V |
This that was a book in its time | W |
Printed on paper and bound in leather | Q |
Last month in the white of a matin prime | W |
Just when the birds sang all together | Q |
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II | M |
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Into the garden I brought it to read | X |
And under the arbute and laurustine | S |
Read it so help me grace in my need | Y |
From title page to closing line | S |
Chapter on chapter did I count | Z |
As a curious traveller counts Stonehenge | A2 |
Added up the mortal amount | Z |
And then proceeded to my revenge | A2 |
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III | M |
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Yonder's a plum tree with a crevice | H |
An owl would build in were he but sage | B2 |
For a lap of moss like a fine pont levis | H |
In a castle of the Middle Age | B2 |
Joins to a lip of gum pure amber | Q |
When he'd be private there might he spend | C2 |
Hours alone in his lady's chamber | Q |
Into this crevice I dropped our friend | C2 |
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IV | M |
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Splash went he as under he ducked | D2 |
At the bottom I knew rain drippings stagnate | E2 |
Next a handful of blossoms I plucked | D2 |
To bury him with my bookshelf's magnate | F2 |
Then I went in doors brought out a loaf | M |
Half a cheese and a bottle of Chablis | H |
Lay on the grass and forgot the oaf | M |
Over a jolly chapter of Rabelais | H |
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V | M |
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Now this morning betwixt the moss | H |
And gum that locked our friend in limbo | I |
A spider had spun his web across | H |
And sat in the midst with arms akimbo | I |
So I took pity for learning's sake | L |
And de profundis accentibus ltis | H |
Cantate quoth I as I got a rake | L |
And up I fished his delectable treatise | H |
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VI | M |
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Here you have it dry in the sun | S |
With all the binding all of a blister | Q |
And great blue spots where the ink has run | S |
And reddish streaks that wink and glister | Q |
O'er the page so beautifully yellow | I |
Oh well have the droppings played their tricks | H |
Did he guess how toadstools grow this fellow | I |
Here's one stuck in his chapter six | H |
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VII | M |
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How did he like it when the live creatures | H |
Tickled and toused and browsed him all over | Q |
And worm slug eft with serious features | H |
Came in each one for his right of trover | Q |
When the water beetle with great blind deaf face | H |
Made of her eggs the stately deposit | G2 |
And the newt borrowed just so much of the preface | H |
As tiled in the top of his black wife's closet | F2 |
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VIII | M |
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All that life and fun and romping | H2 |
All that frisking and twisting and coupling | H2 |
While slowly our poor friend's leaves were swamping | H2 |
And clasps were cracking and covers suppling | H2 |
As if you bad carried sour John Knox | H |
To the play house at Paris Vienna or Munich | I2 |
Fastened him into a front row box | H |
And danced off the ballet with trousers and tunic | I2 |
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IX | H |
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Come old martyr What torment enough is it | G2 |
Back to my room shall you take your sweet self | M |
Good bye mother beetle husband eft sufficit | G2 |
See the snug niche I have made on my shelf | M |
A 's book shall prop you up B 's shall cover you | J2 |
Here's C to be grave with or D to be gay | H2 |
And with E on each side and F right over you | J2 |
Dry rot at ease till the Judgment day | H2 |
Robert Browning
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