The Old English Garden - A Floral Phantasy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDEFGF AH AI AJ AJ KA KA LMLM NOJP| In an old world garden dreaming | A |
| Where the flowers had human names | B |
| Methought in fantastic seeming | A |
| They disported as squires and dames | B |
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| Of old in Rosamond's Bower | C |
| With it's peacock hedges of yew | D |
| One could never find the flower | C |
| Unless one was given the clue | D |
| So take the key of the wicket | E |
| Who would follow my fancy free | F |
| By formal knot and clipt thicket | G |
| And smooth greensward so fair to see | F |
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| And while Time his scythe is whetting | A |
| Ere the dew from the grass has gone | H |
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| The Four Seasons' flight forgetting | A |
| As they dance round the dial stone | I |
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| With a leaf from an old English book | A |
| A Jonquil will serve for a pen | J |
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| Let us note from the green arbour's nook | A |
| Flowers masking like women and men | J |
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| FIRST in VENUS'S LOOKING GLASS | K |
| You may see where LOVE LIES BLEEDING | A |
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| While PRETTY MAIDS all of them pass | K |
| With careless hearts quite unheeding | A |
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| Next a knight with his flaming targe | L |
| See the DENT DE LION so bold | M |
| With his feathery crest at large | L |
| On a field of the cloth of gold | M |
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| Simple honesty shows in vain | N |
| A fashion few seek to robe in | O |
| While the poor SHEPHERD'S PURSE is ta'en | J |
| By rascally RAGGED ROBIN | P |
Walter Crane
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