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 HHHHI | A |
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Now in the thousandth year | B |
When April's near | B |
Now comes it that the great ones of the earth | C |
Take all their mirth | C |
Away with them far off to orchard places | D |
Nor they nor Solomon arrayed like these | E |
To sun themselves at ease | E |
To breathe of wind swept spaces | D |
To see some miracle of leafy graces | F |
To catch the out flowing rapture of the trees | E |
Considering the lilies | E |
Yes And when | G |
Shall they consider Men | G |
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O showering May clad tree | H |
Bear yet awhile with me | H |
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II | A |
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For now at last they have beheld the trees | E |
Lo even these | E |
The men of sounding laughter and low fears | I |
The women of light laughter and no tears | J |
The great ones of the town | K |
And those of most renown | K |
That once sold doves now grown so pennywise | J |
To bargain with forlorner merchandise | J |
They buy and sell they buy and sell again | G |
The life long toil of men | G |
Worn with their market strife to dispossess | J |
The blind the fatherless | J |
They too go forth to breathe of budding trees | J |
And woods with beckoning wonders new unfurled | L |
Yes even these | J |
The money changers and the Pharisees | J |
The rulers of the darkness of this world | L |
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O choiring Summer tree | H |
Bear yet awhile with me | H |
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III | A |
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For now behold their heart's desire is thrall | M |
To simpleness O new delight unguessed | L |
In very rest | L |
And precious beyond all | M |
A garden place a garden with a wall | M |
To the green earth All bountiful to bless | J |
Hearts sickening with excess | J |
To the green earth whose blithe replenishments | J |
Shall fresh the jaded sense | J |
To the green earth the dust corrupted soul | N |
Returns to be made whole | N |
For now it comes indeed | L |
They will go forth all they to see a reed | L |
So shaken by the wind | L |
Men are no longer blind | L |
To aught save human kind | L |
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O mellowing August tree | H |
Bear yet awhile with me | H |
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IV | - |
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The wonder this For some there are no trees | J |
Or in the trees no beauty and no mirth | C |
Those dullest millions pent | L |
In life long banishment | L |
From all the gifts and creatures of the earth | C |
Shut in the inner darkness of the town | K |
Those blighted things you see | H |
But the Sun sees not at its going down | K |
Warped outcasts of some human forestry | H |
Blind victims of the blind | L |
Wreckt ones and dark of mind | L |
With the poor fruit after their piteous kind | L |
And if you take some Old One to the fields | J |
To see what Nature yields | J |
With fullest hands to men already free | H |
It well may be | H |
As on some indecipherable book | O |
The Guest will look | O |
With eyes too old too old too dim to see | H |
Too old too old to learn | P |
Or to discern | P |
Before it slips away | Q |
The joy of such a late half holiday | Q |
Proffer those starved eyes your belated cup | R |
They look not up | R |
Too late too late for any sky to do | L |
Brief kindness with its blue | L |
And what behold they then | G |
In the shamed moment when | G |
Old eyes bow down again | G |
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Down in the night and blackness of the heart | L |
The drowned things start | L |
And he recks nothing of the meadow air | S |
Because of what is There | S |
Lost things of hope and sorrow without tongue | T |
The human lilies sprung | T |
Out of the ooze and trodden | U |
Even as they breathed and clung | T |
Lost lilies bruised and sodden | U |
Lost faces gleaming there | S |
Where misery blasphemes the sacred young | T |
Mute outcry most of those | J |
Small suffering hands defrauded of their rose | J |
Faces the daylight shuns | J |
Ruinous faces of the little ones | J |
Pale witness unaware | S |
Starved lips and withering blood | L |
O broken in the bud | L |
Blank eyes and blighted hair | S |
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O golden golden tree | H |
Bear yet awhile with me | H |
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So is it haply when | G |
Dull eyes look up and then | G |
Dull eyes look down again | G |
Waste no vain holiday on such as these | J |
For them there is no joy in blossomed trees | J |
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V | H |
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For them there is no joy in blossomed trees | J |
And with what eye shut ease | J |
We leave them at the last for company | H |
The Tree | H |
Whose two stark boughs no springtime yet unfurled | L |
Ever since time began | V |
Nor bloom so strange to see | H |
Behold the Man | V |
With His two arms outstretched to fold the world | L |
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O do you remember How it came to be | H |
Far golden windows gazing from the shore | W |
Golden ebb of daylight heart could hold no more | W |
Belov d and Belov d and the sea | H |
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Westward the sun low slow and golden | U |
Eastward the moon climbed honey pale | X |
O do you remember while our eyes were holden | U |
Close close upon us the Golden Sail | X |
Wind swift she came thing of living flame | Y |
Sea breathing Glory to make the heart afraid | L |
The ripples fold on fold | L |
Of coiling gold | L |
Trailing a thousand ways | J |
Her golden maze | J |
Rocked in a golden tumult every one | U |
The gondolas the ships | J |
Westward she made | L |
A portent from the sky gone by gone by | A |
To golden far eclipse | J |
Into the Sun | U |
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Behold a mystery | H |
That shook to golden throbbing all the sea | H |
Oh and what needed one more wonder be | H |
For thee and me Belov d thee and me | H |
Josephine Preston Peabody
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