The Trailing Arbutus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH| I wandered lonely where the pine trees made | A |
| Against the bitter East their barricade | A |
| And guided by its sweet | B |
| Perfume I found within a narrow dell | C |
| The trailing spring flower tinted like a shell | C |
| Amid dry leaves and mosses at my feet | B |
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| From under dead boughs for whose loss the pines | D |
| Moaned ceaseless overhead the blossoming vines | D |
| Lifted their glad surprise | E |
| While yet the bluebird smoothed in leafless trees | F |
| His feathers ruffled by the chill sea breeze | F |
| And snow drifts lingered under April skies | E |
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| As pausing o'er the lonely flower I bent | G |
| I thought of lives thus lowly clogged and pent | G |
| Which yet find room | H |
| Through care and cumber coldness and decay | I |
| To lend a sweetness to the ungenial day | I |
| And make the sad earth happier for their bloom | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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