Edward Thomas

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Aspens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IGJG GKGK

All day and night save winter every weatherA
Above the inn the smithy and the shopB
The aspens at the cross roads talk togetherA
Of rain until their last leaves fall from the topB
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Out of the blacksmith's cavern comes the ringingC
Of hammer shoe and anvil out of the innD
The clink the hum the roar the random singingC
The sounds that for these fifty years have beenD
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The whisper of the aspens is not drownedE
And over lightless pane and footless roadF
Empty as sky with every other soundE
No ceasing calls their ghosts from their abodeF
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A silent smithy a silent inn nor failsG
In the bare moonlight or the thick furred gloomH
In the tempest or the night of nightingalesG
To turn the cross roads to a ghostly roomH
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And it would be the same were no house nearI
Over all sorts of weather men and timesG
Aspens must shake their leaves and men may hearJ
But need not listen more than to my rhymesG
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Whatever wind blows while they and I have leavesG
We cannot other than an aspen beK
That ceaselessly unreasonably grievesG
Or so men think who like a different treeK

Edward Thomas



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