Tree-tops Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKL| There beyond my window ledge | A |
| Heaped against the sky a hedge | A |
| Of huge and waving tree tops stands | B |
| With multitudes of fluttering hands | B |
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| Wave they beat they to and fro | C |
| Never stillness may they know | C |
| Plunged by the wind and hurled and torn | D |
| Anguished purposeless forlorn | D |
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| O ferocious O despairing | E |
| In huddled isolation faring | F |
| Through a scattered universe | G |
| Lost coins from the Almighty's purse | G |
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| No below you do not see | H |
| The firm foundations of the tree | H |
| Anchored to a rock beneath | I |
| We laugh in the hammering tempest's teeth | I |
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| Boughs like men but burgeons are | J |
| On an adamantine star | J |
| Men are myriad blossoms on | K |
| A staunch and cosmic skeleton | L |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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