The Timber Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK| Sure thou didst flourish once and many springs | A |
| Many bright mornings much dew many showers | B |
| Pass'd o'er thy head many light hearts and wings | A |
| Which now are dead lodg'd in thy living bowers | B |
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| And still a new succession sings and flies | C |
| Fresh groves grow up and their green branches shoot | D |
| Towards the old and still enduring skies | C |
| While the low violet thrives at their root | D |
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| But thou beneath the sad and heavy line | E |
| Of death doth waste all senseless cold and dark | F |
| Where not so much as dreams of light may shine | E |
| Nor any thought of greenness leaf or bark | F |
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| And yet as if some deep hate and dissent | G |
| Bred in thy growth betwixt high winds and thee | H |
| Were still alive thou dost great storms resent | G |
| Before they come and know'st how near they be | H |
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| Else all at rest thou liest and the fierce breath | I |
| Of tempests can no more disturb thy ease | J |
| But this thy strange resentment after death | I |
| Means only those who broke in life thy peace | K |
Henry Vaughan
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