The Future Of Forestry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHFIJKLHHIMNO JPQRRRS| How will the legend of the age of trees | A |
| Feel when the last tree falls in England | B |
| When the concrete spreads and the town conquers | C |
| The country s heart when contraceptive | D |
| Tarmac s laid where farm has faded | E |
| Tramline flows where slept a hamlet | F |
| And shop fronts blazing without a stop from | G |
| Dover to Wrath have glazed us over | H |
| Simplest tales will then bewilder | H |
| The questioning children What was a chestnut | F |
| Say what it means to climb a Beanstalk | I |
| Tell me grandfather what an elm is | J |
| What was Autumn They never taught us | K |
| Then told by teachers how once from mould | L |
| Came growing creatures of lower nature | H |
| Able to live and die though neither | H |
| Beast nor man and around them wreathing | I |
| Excellent clothing breathing sunlight | M |
| Half understanding their ill acquainted | N |
| Fancy will tint their wonder paintings | O |
| Trees as men walking wood romances | J |
| Of goblins stalking in silky green | P |
| Of milk sheen froth upon the lace of hawthorn s | Q |
| Collar pallor in the face of birchgirl | R |
| So shall a homeless time though dimly | R |
| Catch from afar for soul is watchfull | R |
| A sight of tree delighted Eden | S |
Clive Staples Lewis
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