The Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEEDFEEGG HH A EEIJKKJJGGJJJLJJL HH A MLLMMJJJJNNLLLLL HH JCLLCKHKHLLLJJHHOOHP PQQRRLLGGG LLSSTTUTUSTJJJJSLLS HH GGGJJ H JJHHLVHVL HWWH UXUXYLLLJJUJLAJU HHHH

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Now in the thousandth yearB
When April's nearB
Now comes it that the great ones of the earthC
Take all their mirthC
Away with them far off to orchard placesD
Nor they nor Solomon arrayed like theseE
To sun themselves at easeE
To breathe of wind swept spacesD
To see some miracle of leafy gracesF
To catch the out flowing rapture of the treesE
Considering the liliesE
Yes And whenG
Shall they consider MenG
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O showering May clad treeH
Bear yet awhile with meH
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IIA
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For now at last they have beheld the treesE
Lo even theseE
The men of sounding laughter and low fearsI
The women of light laughter and no tearsJ
The great ones of the townK
And those of most renownK
That once sold doves now grown so pennywiseJ
To bargain with forlorner merchandiseJ
They buy and sell they buy and sell againG
The life long toil of menG
Worn with their market strife to dispossessJ
The blind the fatherlessJ
They too go forth to breathe of budding treesJ
And woods with beckoning wonders new unfurledL
Yes even theseJ
The money changers and the PhariseesJ
The rulers of the darkness of this worldL
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O choiring Summer treeH
Bear yet awhile with meH
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For now behold their heart's desire is thrallM
To simpleness O new delight unguessedL
In very restL
And precious beyond allM
A garden place a garden with a wallM
To the green earth All bountiful to blessJ
Hearts sickening with excessJ
To the green earth whose blithe replenishmentsJ
Shall fresh the jaded senseJ
To the green earth the dust corrupted soulN
Returns to be made wholeN
For now it comes indeedL
They will go forth all they to see a reedL
So shaken by the windL
Men are no longer blindL
To aught save human kindL
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O mellowing August treeH
Bear yet awhile with meH
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The wonder this For some there are no treesJ
Or in the trees no beauty and no mirthC
Those dullest millions pentL
In life long banishmentL
From all the gifts and creatures of the earthC
Shut in the inner darkness of the townK
Those blighted things you seeH
But the Sun sees not at its going downK
Warped outcasts of some human forestryH
Blind victims of the blindL
Wreckt ones and dark of mindL
With the poor fruit after their piteous kindL
And if you take some Old One to the fieldsJ
To see what Nature yieldsJ
With fullest hands to men already freeH
It well may beH
As on some indecipherable bookO
The Guest will lookO
With eyes too old too old too dim to seeH
Too old too old to learnP
Or to discernP
Before it slips awayQ
The joy of such a late half holidayQ
Proffer those starved eyes your belated cupR
They look not upR
Too late too late for any sky to doL
Brief kindness with its blueL
And what behold they thenG
In the shamed moment whenG
Old eyes bow down againG
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Down in the night and blackness of the heartL
The drowned things startL
And he recks nothing of the meadow airS
Because of what is ThereS
Lost things of hope and sorrow without tongueT
The human lilies sprungT
Out of the ooze and troddenU
Even as they breathed and clungT
Lost lilies bruised and soddenU
Lost faces gleaming thereS
Where misery blasphemes the sacred youngT
Mute outcry most of thoseJ
Small suffering hands defrauded of their roseJ
Faces the daylight shunsJ
Ruinous faces of the little onesJ
Pale witness unawareS
Starved lips and withering bloodL
O broken in the budL
Blank eyes and blighted hairS
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O golden golden treeH
Bear yet awhile with meH
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So is it haply whenG
Dull eyes look up and thenG
Dull eyes look down againG
Waste no vain holiday on such as theseJ
For them there is no joy in blossomed treesJ
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For them there is no joy in blossomed treesJ
And with what eye shut easeJ
We leave them at the last for companyH
The TreeH
Whose two stark boughs no springtime yet unfurledL
Ever since time beganV
Nor bloom so strange to seeH
Behold the ManV
With His two arms outstretched to fold the worldL
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O do you remember How it came to beH
Far golden windows gazing from the shoreW
Golden ebb of daylight heart could hold no moreW
Belov d and Belov d and the seaH
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Westward the sun low slow and goldenU
Eastward the moon climbed honey paleX
O do you remember while our eyes were holdenU
Close close upon us the Golden SailX
Wind swift she came thing of living flameY
Sea breathing Glory to make the heart afraidL
The ripples fold on foldL
Of coiling goldL
Trailing a thousand waysJ
Her golden mazeJ
Rocked in a golden tumult every oneU
The gondolas the shipsJ
Westward she madeL
A portent from the sky gone by gone byA
To golden far eclipseJ
Into the SunU
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Behold a mysteryH
That shook to golden throbbing all the seaH
Oh and what needed one more wonder beH
For thee and me Belov d thee and meH

Josephine Preston Peabody



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