Child's Song In Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG| The Silver Birch is a dainty lady | A |
| She wears a satin gown | B |
| The elm tree makes the old churchyard shady | A |
| She will not live in town | B |
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| The English oak is a sturdy fellow | C |
| He gets his green coat late | D |
| The willow is smart in a suit of yellow | C |
| While brown the beech trees wait | D |
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| Such a gay green gown God gives the larches | E |
| As green as he is good | F |
| The hazels hold up their arms for arches | E |
| When spring rides through the wood | F |
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| The chestnut s proud and the lilac s pretty | A |
| The poplar s gentle and tall | G |
| But the plane tree s kind to the poor dull city | A |
| I love him best of all | G |
Edith Nesbit
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Jean (nee) Bray: A long, long time ago, in the 1930s, at Luton, I had to learn this poem by heart - as one did in those days at school. It stuck with me, and at 90, my well-worn memory recalled it as I looked up my garden, and watched the silver birch, with leaves falling. It is a lovely sight.
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