The Things That Grow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFBGHEIJKBBFBBL BMBFFB| It was nothing but a little neglected garden | A |
| Laurel screened and hushed in a hot stillness | B |
| An old pear tree and flowers mingled with weeds | C |
| Yet as I came to it all unawares it seemed | D |
| Charged with mystery and I stopped intruding | E |
| Fearful of hurting that so absorbed stillness | B |
| For I was tingling with the wind's salty splendour | F |
| And still my senses moved with the keel's buoyance | B |
| Out on the water where strong light was shivered | G |
| Into a dance dazzling as drops of flame | H |
| The rocking radiance and the winged sail's lifting | E |
| And the noise of the rush of the water left behind | I |
| Sang to my body of movement victory joy | J |
| But here the light was asleep and green green | K |
| In a veined leaf it glowed among the shadows | B |
| A hollyhock rose to the sun and bathed its flowers | B |
| Luminously clustered in the unmoving air | F |
| A butterfly lazily winked its gorgeous wings | B |
| Marigolds burned intently amid the grass | B |
| The ripening pears hung each with a rounded shadow | L |
| All beyond was drowned in the indolent blueness | B |
| And at my feet like a word of an unknown tongue | M |
| Was the midnight dark bloom of the delicate pansy | B |
| Suddenly these things awed my heart as if here | F |
| In perishing blossom and springing shoot were a power | F |
| Greater than shipwrecking winds and all wild waters | B |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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