In A City Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDDC EFGH IHJKLKMNN OPOQRSRLSTUSVJHWXYZQ A2P B2C2D2B2RE2RB2RC2F2O G2OH2I2H2I2J2K2L2J2K 2J2K2M2K2L2N2K2L2K2W N2I2WO2J2K2J2J2KP2K2 K2KNQ2NQ2K2GR2ES2S2 WT2T2WU2K2R2K2U2

How strange that here is nothing as it wasA
The sward is young and newB
The sod there shapes a different massC
The random trees stand other than I knewB
No here the Past has left no residueB
No aftermathD
By a new pathD
The workmen homeward in the city twilight passC
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Yet was this willow hereE
It hung as now its olive skeins aloftF
Into the sky then blue and clearG
And yonder pair of poplar treesH
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Rose also softI
And sibilant in the glory of the breezeH
It's early dark One scarce distinguishesJ
Their sullen feathering in the autumn skyK
'Tis warm and stillL
Dull o'er the town the vapours lieK
InnumerableM
And dodging the uncertain stareN
The small shrewd lampions dot the airN
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Many like meO
Loiter perhaps as I in after yearsP
As looking here to seeO
Some vestige of the living that was theirsQ
Some trace of yesterdayR
Somae hint or remnant echo clue some thingS
Some very little thing of what was theyR
Sure such are near Else were it not so stillL
This eveningS
So human still and warm and kindT
'Tis as of many movedU
In unison of will and mind to singS
Low litanies to that which they had wholly lovedV
How sweet it isJ
Under the perishable treesH
To hear the wings of the one human soulW
Fluttering upX
In Time's dark branches to the lucid starsY
More than Despair is HopeZ
And more than Hope is the Hope that despairsQ
And more than allA2
Is Love that disbelieves the real yearsP
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Here in this placeB2
One August morning when the earlier crowdC2
Showmen or populaceD2
From many a region and of curious faceB2
Abroad the holidayR
Quaint in the sun with garb and gesture glowedE2
And speaking grave or gayR
The various accent of their lonely raceB2
Between the shadowy gold bazars idled awayR
She as a cloudC2
All sunrise coloured and aloneF2
Thro' the blue summer tremblin came to meO
I dried her tears and here we sat us downG2
Little by little as tripping overseaO
On flame tipped waves the daylight's long surpriseH2
Sweeps world and heaven in oneI2
So love across our eyesH2
Broke with the sunI2
Happy we walked away The fairy sightJ2
Untangling shook a thousand chequered firesK2
Low under scarlet awnings rung on rungL2
Copper and bronze and azuriteJ2
Ranged on the sagging wiresK2
The trifles clinked in the red lightJ2
From beam and niche vendors in strange attiresK2
Slipping dark hands alongM2
Unhooked the quiet wool the gaudy chintzK2
Or precious where it hungL2
Long fluid jewels of auroral silkN2
And dryly to the senseK2
Their attars old and dusty powders clungL2
Still passed the weavers and the dyersK2
Many a jar a bowlW
Turned as of water or of milkN2
Glazen and jade and porcelainI2
Far down the shadows colouring stoleW
As one had shook a jungle after rainO2
And basketing the drops at random spilledJ2
Their red and green their topaz and sapphiresK2
All were here piledJ2
And wandering out we smiledJ2
To see across the glowing noon so highK
So high and farP2
The incandescent minarets and domes and spiresK2
Lifting the fusion of the coloured choirsK2
To the skyK
Softly save only whereN
A flag or pennant fallen slackQ2
Shotted the dazzling airN
I came to day to find her I came backQ2
Humble with sweet desiresK2
Across this dun September atmosphereG
To herR2
I came I knew she was not hereE
Now let me goS2
I came I come because I love her soS2
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Not in the acres of the SoulW
Does Nature drive the ploughshare of her changeT2
It is not strangeT2
That here in part and wholeW
The faithful eye sees all things as beforeU2
For past the newer flowersK2
Above the recent trees and clouds come o'erR2
Love finds the other hoursK2
Once moreU2

Trumbull Stickney



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