The Beech Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDECE FGGFHIIJHJ CKKCLMMNLN OPPBQRRSQJJSMY beautiful beech your smooth grey coat is trimmed | A |
With letters Once each stood for all things dear | B |
To foolish lovers dead this many a year | B |
Whose lamp of lighted love so soon was dimmed | A |
You have seen them come and go | C |
And heard their kisses and vows | D |
Under your boughs | D |
The pitiful vows they swore | E |
Have seen their poor tears flow | C |
Have seen them part to meet and to return no more | E |
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And in old winters through your branches bare | F |
The north wind drove the blue home scented smoke | G |
That on the glowing Christmas hearth awoke | G |
Where the old logs with eager flicker and flare | F |
Sang their low crackling song | H |
Of peace and of good will | I |
The old song is still | I |
The old voices have died away | J |
The hearth has been cold so long | H |
And the bright faces dimmed and covered up with clay | J |
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And summer after summer wakes to glow | C |
The ordered pleasance with the clipped box hedge | K |
The drooping lilac by the old moat's edge | K |
The roses that throw you kisses from below | C |
The orchard pink and white | L |
The sedge's whispered words | M |
The nesting birds | M |
All these return to revel round your feet | N |
And in the untroubled night | L |
The nightingale still sings the jasmine still is sweet | N |
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My beautiful beech I carve upon you here | O |
The master letter which begins her name | P |
Through whom to me the royal summer came | P |
And nightingale and rose and all things dear | B |
And in some far off time | Q |
I shall come here weary and old | R |
When the hearth in my heart is cold | R |
And the birds that nest there flown | S |
I will remember this summer in all its prime | Q |
And say 'There was a day | J |
Thank God the Giver an unforgotten day | J |
When I walked here not alone | S |
O God of pity and sorrow not alone ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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