This poem consists of alternate rhyme quatrains in trochaic octameter. It tells a story of a simple gardener, who meets a lovely women crying in his garden. The gardener offers to end the women's loneliness by offering her his hand in marriage, but in vain the women scorns him and the gardener is the one who is left loney. The poem's charm is its clever wordplay, and the floral puns which are sprinkled into every line.
Jun 1887
