Woodland Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB BDDBEDFGHFHI EIGAB AB| Sweet as Eden is the air | A |
| And Eden sweet the ray | B |
| No Paradise is lost for them | C |
| Who foot by branching root and stem | C |
| And lightly with the woodland share | A |
| The change of night and day | B |
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| Here all say | B |
| We serve her even as I | D |
| We brood we strive to sky | D |
| We gaze upon decay | B |
| We wot of life through death | E |
| How each feeds each we spy | D |
| And is a tangle round | F |
| Are patient what is dumb | G |
| We question not nor ask | H |
| The silent to give sound | F |
| The hidden to unmask | H |
| The distant to draw near | I |
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| And this the woodland saith | E |
| I know not hope or fear | I |
| I take whate'er may come | G |
| I raise my head to aspects fair | A |
| From foul I turn away | B |
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| Sweet as Eden is the air | A |
| And Eden sweet the ray | B |
George Meredith
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