The Linden Avenue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CGCG CBHB DIJI DKCK LMFM CNHN| A house of unimagined beauty | A |
| Is set in parkland cool and dark | B |
| Gates with an arch then meadows hillocks | C |
| And oats and woods beyond the park | B |
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| Here with their crowns each other hiding | D |
| Enormous linden trees engage | E |
| In dusky quiet celebration | F |
| Of their two hundred years of age | E |
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| And underneath their vaulted branches | C |
| Across the regularly drawn | G |
| Symmetric avenues grow flowers | C |
| In flower beds upon a lawn | G |
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| Beneath the trees on sandy pathways | C |
| Not one bright spot relieves the dark | B |
| Save like an opening in a tunnel | H |
| The distant entrance of the park | B |
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| But now the blossom time is starting | D |
| The walled in linden trees reveal | I |
| And spread about within their shadow | J |
| Their irresistible appeal | I |
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| The visitors in summer clothing | D |
| While walking on the crunchy sand | K |
| Breathe in unfathomable fragrance | C |
| Which only bees can understand | K |
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| This gripping scent is theme and subject | L |
| Whereas however well they look | M |
| The flower beds the lawn the garden | F |
| Are but the cover of a book | M |
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| The clustered wax bespattered flowers | C |
| On massive trees sedate and old | N |
| Lit up by raindrops burn and sparkle | H |
| Above the mansion they enfold | N |
Boris Pasternak
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