The Song Of The Garden-toad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGE HIJIKLMLNL OPQPRSIS| Down down beneath the daisy beds | A |
| O hear the cries of pain | B |
| And moaning on the cinder path | C |
| They're blind amid the rain | B |
| Can murmurs of the worms arise | D |
| To higher hearts than mine | E |
| I wonder if that gardener hears | F |
| Who made the mold all fine | E |
| And packed each gentle seedling down | G |
| So carefully in line | E |
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| I watched the red rose reaching up | H |
| To ask him if he heard | I |
| Those cries that stung the evening earth | J |
| Till all the rose roots stirred | I |
| She asked him if he felt the hate | K |
| That burned beneath them there | L |
| She asked him if he heard the curse | M |
| Of worms in black despair | L |
| He kissed the rose What did it mean | N |
| What of the rose's prayer | L |
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| Down down where rain has never come | O |
| They fight in burning graves | P |
| Bleeding and drinking blood | Q |
| Within those venom caves | P |
| Blaspheming still the gardener's name | R |
| They live and hate and go | S |
| I wonder if the gardener heard | I |
| The rose that told him so | S |
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