The Lime Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBA DACDA ECCFF GHICH IJICI| That lime tree on the distant rising ground | A |
| If it was a lime tree showed her yellow leaves | B |
| Above the renewed green of wet August grass | C |
| First Autumn yellow that on first Autumn eves | B |
| Too soon was found | A |
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| Comfortless lime tree Scarce an aspen leaf | D |
| Like a green butterfly flitted to the ground | A |
| There was no sign of Autumn in the grass | C |
| Even the long garden beds their beauty brief | D |
| Their mignonette | A |
| - | |
| Nasturtium and sweet william and red stocks | E |
| And clover crouching in the border grass | C |
| And blood like fuschia eve's primrose and white phlox | C |
| And honeysuckle waved all their smell and hue | F |
| Morn and eve anew | F |
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| But that far lime tree yellowing by the oak | G |
| Warning oak elm and poplar and each fresh tree | H |
| Shaking in the south wind delightedly | I |
| And clover in the closeness of the grass | C |
| Warns also me | H |
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| And now when all the trees are standing still | I |
| Beneath the purple and white of the west sky | J |
| And time is standing still as stand it will | I |
| That early yellowing lime with palsied fingers | C |
| Cannot be still | I |
John Frederick Freeman
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