The Planting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB ABDDB EAFFA ABAAB GBAA HBIIB JBAAB KLIIL IBIIB MIAAI ABNN ABII| PLANT it safe and sure my child | A |
| Then cease watching and cease weeping | B |
| You have done your utmost part | C |
| Leave it with a quiet heart | C |
| It will grow while you are sleeping | B |
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| 'But O father ' says the child | A |
| With a troubled face up creeping | B |
| 'How can I but think and grieve | D |
| When the fierce wind comes at eve | D |
| Tearing it and I lie sleeping | B |
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| 'I have loved my young tree so | E |
| In each bud seen leaf and floweret | A |
| Watered it each day with prayers | F |
| Guarded it with many cares | F |
| Lest some canker should devour it | A |
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| 'O good father ' sobs the child | A |
| 'If I come in summer's shining | B |
| And my pretty tree be dead | A |
| How the sun will scorch my head | A |
| How I shall sit lorn repining | B |
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| 'Rather let me evermore | G |
| An incessant watch thus keeping | B |
| Bear the cold the storm the frost | A |
| That my treasure be not lost | A |
| Ay bear aught but idle sleeping ' | - |
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| Sternly said the father then | H |
| 'Who art thou child vainly grieving | B |
| Canst thou send the balmy dews | I |
| Or the rich sap interfuse | I |
| Through the dead trunk inly living | B |
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| 'Canst thou bid the heavens restrain | J |
| Natural tempests for thy praying | B |
| Canst thou bend one tender shoot | A |
| Urge the growth of one frail root | A |
| Keep one leaflet from decaying | B |
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| 'If it live to bloom all fair | K |
| Will it praise thee for its blossom | L |
| If it die will any plaints | I |
| Reach thee as with kings and saints | I |
| Drops it to the cold earth's bosom | L |
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| 'Plant it all thou canst with prayers | I |
| It is safe 'neath His sky's folding | B |
| Who the whole earth compasses | I |
| Whether we watch more or less | I |
| His wide eye all things beholding | B |
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| 'Should He need a goodly tree | M |
| For the shelter of the nations | I |
| He will make it grow if not | A |
| Never yet His love forgot | A |
| Human love and faith and patience | I |
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| 'Leave thy treasure in His hand | A |
| Cease all watching and all weeping | B |
| Years hence men its shade may crave | N |
| And its mighty branches wave | N |
| Beautiful above they sleeping ' | - |
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| If his hope tear sown that child | A |
| Garnered after joyful reaping | B |
| Know I not yet unawares | I |
| Gleams this truth through many cares | I |
| 'It will grow while thou art sleeping ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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