Time And The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHIJJKKLL MNOOPP| The spring has darkened with activity | A |
| The future gathers in vine bush and tree | A |
| Persimmon walnut loquat fig and grape | B |
| Degrees and kinds of color taste and shape | B |
| These will advance in their due series space | C |
| The season like a tranquil dwelling place | C |
| And yet excitement swells me vein by vein | D |
| I long to crowd the little garden gain | D |
| Its sweetness in my hand and crush it small | E |
| And taste it in a moment time and all | E |
| These trees whose slow growth measures off my years | F |
| I would expand to greatness No one hears | G |
| And I am still retarded in duress | H |
| And this is like that other restlessness | I |
| To seize the greatness not yet fairly earned | J |
| One which the tougher poets have discerned | J |
| Gascoigne Ben Jonson Greville Raleigh Donne | K |
| Poets who wrote great poems one by one | K |
| And spaced by many years each line an act | L |
| Through which few labor which no men retract | L |
| This passion is the scholar s heritage | M |
| The imposition of a busy age | N |
| The passion to condense from book to book | O |
| Unbroken wisdom in a single look | O |
| Though we know well that when this fix the head | P |
| The mind s immortal but the man is dead | P |
Yvor Winters
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