Light Between The Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEC FGFGHIIH JKJKALLA MKMKNOON PQPQRSSR TJTJAAUU| Long long long the trail | A |
| Through the brooding forest gloom | B |
| Down the shadowy lonely vale | A |
| Into silence like a room | B |
| Where the light of life has fled | C |
| And the jealous curtains close | D |
| Round the passionless repose | E |
| Of the silent dead | C |
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| Plod plod plod away | F |
| Step by step in mouldering moss | G |
| Thick branches bar the day | F |
| Over languid streams that cross | G |
| Softly slowly with a sound | H |
| In their aimless creeping | I |
| Like a smothered weeping | I |
| Through the enchanted ground | H |
| - | |
| Yield yield yield thy quest | J |
| Whispers through the woodland deep | K |
| Come to me and be at rest | J |
| I am slumber I am sleep | K |
| Then the weary feet would fail | A |
| But the never daunted will | L |
| Urges Forward forward still | L |
| Press along the trail | A |
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| Breast breast breast the slope | M |
| See the path is growing steep | K |
| Hark a little song of hope | M |
| When the stream begins to leap | K |
| Though the forest far and wide | N |
| Still shuts out the bending blue | O |
| We shall finally win through | O |
| Cross the long divide | N |
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| On on onward tramp | P |
| Will the journey never end | Q |
| Over yonder lies the camp | P |
| Welcome waits us there my friend | Q |
| Can we reach it ere the night | R |
| Upward upward never fear | S |
| Look the summit must be near | S |
| See the line of light | R |
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| Red red red the shine | T |
| Of the splendour in the west | J |
| Glowing through the ranks of pine | T |
| Clear along the mountain crest | J |
| Long long long the trail | A |
| Out of sorrow's lonely vale | A |
| But at last the traveller sees | U |
| Light between the trees | U |
Henry Van Dyke
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