Acacia Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHIJ KLMLI NALLOIP QLLR| All the trees and bushes of the garden | A |
| Display their bright new green | B |
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| But above them all still bare | C |
| The great old acacia stands | D |
| His solitary bent black branches stark | E |
| Against the garden and the sky | F |
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| It is as though those other thoughtless shrubs | G |
| The winter over hastened to rejoice | H |
| And clothe themselves in spring's new finery | I |
| Heedless of all the iron time behind them | J |
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| But he older and wiser stronger and sadder of heart | K |
| Remembers still the cruel winter and knows | L |
| That in some months that death will come again | M |
| And for a season lonelily meditates | L |
| Above his lighter companions' frivolity | I |
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| Till some late sunny day when breaking thought | N |
| He'll suddenly yield to the fickle persuasive sun | A |
| And over all his rough and writhing boughs | L |
| And tiniest twigs | L |
| Will spread a pale green mist of feathery leaf | O |
| More delicate more touching than all the verdure | I |
| Of the younger slenderer gracefuller plants around | P |
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| And then when the leaves have grown | Q |
| Till the boughs can scarcely be seen through their crowded plumes | L |
| There will softly glimmer scattered upon him blooms | L |
| Ivory white in the green weightlessly hanging | R |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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