Binsey Poplars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABACBACC AADEEFFDEGHGGDDD| felled | A |
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| My aspens dear whose airy cages quelled | A |
| Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun | B |
| All felled felled are all felled | A |
| Of a fresh and following folded rank | C |
| Not spared not one | B |
| That dandled a sandalled | A |
| Shadow that swam or sank | C |
| On meadow and river and wind wandering weed winding bank | C |
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| O if we but knew what we do | A |
| When we delve or hew | A |
| Hack and rack the growing green | D |
| Since country is so tender | E |
| To touch her being s oacute slender | E |
| That like this sleek and seeing ball | F |
| But a prick will make no eye at all | F |
| Where we even where we mean | D |
| To mend her we end her | E |
| When we hew or delve | G |
| After comers cannot guess the beauty been | H |
| Ten or twelve only ten or twelve | G |
| Strokes of havoc uacute nselve | G |
| The sweet especial scene | D |
| Rural scene a rural scene | D |
| Sweet especial rural scene | D |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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