The Gardener Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFBB GGHH IICC| The gardener does not love to talk | A |
| He makes me keep the gravel walk | A |
| And when he puts his tools away | B |
| He locks the door and takes the key | C |
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| Away behind the currant row | D |
| Where no one else but cook may go | D |
| Far in the plots I see him dig | E |
| Old and serious brown and big | E |
| - | |
| He digs the flowers green red and blue | F |
| Nor wishes to be spoken to | F |
| He digs the flowers and cuts the hay | B |
| And never seems to want to play | B |
| - | |
| Silly gardener summer goes | G |
| And winter comes with pinching toes | G |
| When in the garden bare and brown | H |
| You must lay your barrow down | H |
| - | |
| Well now and while the summer stays | I |
| To profit by these garden days | I |
| O how much wiser you would be | C |
| To play at Indian wars with me | C |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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