In A Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GCCC AHIH JKIK LMNMThe world is resting without sound or motion | A |
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down | B |
Painting with fire the spires and the windows | C |
In the elm shaded town | B |
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Beyond the calm Connecticut the hills lie | D |
Silvered with haze as fruits still fresh with bloom | E |
The swallows weave in flight across the zenith | F |
On an aerial loom | E |
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Into the garden peace comes back with twilight | G |
Peace that since noon had left the purple phlox | C |
The heavy headed asters the late roses | C |
And swaying hollyhocks | C |
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For at high noon I heard from this same garden | A |
The far off murmur as when many come | H |
Up from the village surged the blind and beating | I |
Red music of a drum | H |
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And the hysterical sharp fife that shattered | J |
The brittle autumn air | K |
While they came the young men marching | I |
Past the village square | K |
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Across the calm Connecticut the hills change | L |
To violet the veils of dusk are deep | M |
Earth takes her children's many sorrows calmly | N |
And stills herself to sleep | M |
Sara Teasdale
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