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 G2MG2MJ2H2J2H2

I THE FLOWER'S NAMEA
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Here's the garden she walked acrossB
Arm in my arm such a short while sinceC
Hark now I push its wicket the mossB
Hinders the hinges and makes them winceC
She must have reached this shrub ere she turnedD
As back with that murmur the wicket swungE
For she laid the poor snail my chance foot spurnedD
To feed and forget it the leaves amongE
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IIF
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Down this side ofthe gravel walkG
She went while her rope's edge brushed the boxH
And here she paused in her gracious talkG
To point me a moth on the milk white phloxH
Roses ranged in valiant rowI
I will never think that she passed you byJ
She loves you noble roses I knowI
But yonder see where the rock plants lieJ
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IIIF
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This flower she stopped at finger on lipK
Stooped over in doubt as settling its claimA
Till she gave me with pride to make no slipK
Its soft meandering Spanish nameA
What a name Was it love or praiseH
Speech half asleep or song half awakeL
I must learn Spanish one of these daysH
Only for that slow sweet name's sakeL
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IVM
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Roses if I live and do wellN
I may bring her one of these daysH
To fix you fast with as fine a spellN
Fit you each with his Spanish phraseH
But do not detain me now for she lingersH
There like sunshine over the groundO
And ever I see her soft white fingersH
Searching after the bud she foundO
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VM
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Flower you Spaniard look that you grow notP
Stay as you are and be loved for everQ
Bud if I kiss you 'tis that you blow notP
Mind the shut pink mouth opens neverQ
For while it pouts her fingers wrestleR
Twinkling the audacious leaves betweenS
Till round they turn and down they nestleR
Is not the dear mark still to be seenS
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VIM
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Where I find her not beauties vanishT
Whither I follow ber beauties fleeM
Is there no method to tell her in SpanishT
June's twice June since she breathed it with meM
Come bud show me the least of her tracesH
Treasure my lady's lightest footfallU
Ah you may flout and turn up your facesH
Roses you are not so fair after allU
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II SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSISH
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Plague take all your pedants say IM
He who wrote what I hold in my handV
Centuries back was so good as to dieM
Leaving this rubbish to cumber the landV
This that was a book in its timeW
Printed on paper and bound in leatherQ
Last month in the white of a matin primeW
Just when the birds sang all togetherQ
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IIM
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Into the garden I brought it to readX
And under the arbute and laurustineS
Read it so help me grace in my needY
From title page to closing lineS
Chapter on chapter did I countZ
As a curious traveller counts StonehengeA2
Added up the mortal amountZ
And then proceeded to my revengeA2
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IIIM
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Yonder's a plum tree with a creviceH
An owl would build in were he but sageB2
For a lap of moss like a fine pont levisH
In a castle of the Middle AgeB2
Joins to a lip of gum pure amberQ
When he'd be private there might he spendC2
Hours alone in his lady's chamberQ
Into this crevice I dropped our friendC2
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IVM
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Splash went he as under he duckedD2
At the bottom I knew rain drippings stagnateE2
Next a handful of blossoms I pluckedD2
To bury him with my bookshelf's magnateF2
Then I went in doors brought out a loafM
Half a cheese and a bottle of ChablisH
Lay on the grass and forgot the oafM
Over a jolly chapter of RabelaisH
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VM
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Now this morning betwixt the mossH
And gum that locked our friend in limboI
A spider had spun his web acrossH
And sat in the midst with arms akimboI
So I took pity for learning's sakeL
And de profundis accentibus ltisH
Cantate quoth I as I got a rakeL
And up I fished his delectable treatiseH
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VIM
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Here you have it dry in the sunS
With all the binding all of a blisterQ
And great blue spots where the ink has runS
And reddish streaks that wink and glisterQ
O'er the page so beautifully yellowI
Oh well have the droppings played their tricksH
Did he guess how toadstools grow this fellowI
Here's one stuck in his chapter sixH
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VIIM
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How did he like it when the live creaturesH
Tickled and toused and browsed him all overQ
And worm slug eft with serious featuresH
Came in each one for his right of troverQ
When the water beetle with great blind deaf faceH
Made of her eggs the stately depositG2
And the newt borrowed just so much of the prefaceH
As tiled in the top of his black wife's closetF2
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VIIIM
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All that life and fun and rompingH2
All that frisking and twisting and couplingH2
While slowly our poor friend's leaves were swampingH2
And clasps were cracking and covers supplingH2
As if you bad carried sour John KnoxH
To the play house at Paris Vienna or MunichI2
Fastened him into a front row boxH
And danced off the ballet with trousers and tunicI2
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IXH
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Come old martyr What torment enough is itG2
Back to my room shall you take your sweet selfM
Good bye mother beetle husband eft sufficitG2
See the snug niche I have made on my shelfM
A 's book shall prop you up B 's shall cover youJ2
Here's C to be grave with or D to be gayH2
And with E on each side and F right over youJ2
Dry rot at ease till the Judgment dayH2

Robert Browning



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