Aspens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IGJG GKGK| All day and night save winter every weather | A |
| Above the inn the smithy and the shop | B |
| The aspens at the cross roads talk together | A |
| Of rain until their last leaves fall from the top | B |
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| Out of the blacksmith's cavern comes the ringing | C |
| Of hammer shoe and anvil out of the inn | D |
| The clink the hum the roar the random singing | C |
| The sounds that for these fifty years have been | D |
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| The whisper of the aspens is not drowned | E |
| And over lightless pane and footless road | F |
| Empty as sky with every other sound | E |
| No ceasing calls their ghosts from their abode | F |
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| A silent smithy a silent inn nor fails | G |
| In the bare moonlight or the thick furred gloom | H |
| In the tempest or the night of nightingales | G |
| To turn the cross roads to a ghostly room | H |
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| And it would be the same were no house near | I |
| Over all sorts of weather men and times | G |
| Aspens must shake their leaves and men may hear | J |
| But need not listen more than to my rhymes | G |
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| Whatever wind blows while they and I have leaves | G |
| We cannot other than an aspen be | K |
| That ceaselessly unreasonably grieves | G |
| Or so men think who like a different tree | K |
Edward Thomas
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