Song Of The Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDDC BEBFFE BGBHHG BIBJJI BKBLLM BNOPPN| A | |
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| WE are the Trees | B |
| Our dark and leafy glade | C |
| Bands the bright earth with softer mysteries | B |
| Beneath us changed and tamed the seasons run | D |
| In burning zones we build against the sun | D |
| Long centuries of shade | C |
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| We are the Trees | B |
| Who grow for man s desire | E |
| Heat in our faithful hearts and fruits that please | B |
| Dwelling beneath our tents he lightly gains | F |
| The few sufficiencies his life attains | F |
| Shelter and food and fire | E |
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| We are the Trees | B |
| That by great waters stand | G |
| By rills that murmur to our murmuring bees | B |
| And where in tracts all desolate and waste | H |
| The palm foot stays man follows on to taste | H |
| Springs in the desert sand | G |
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| We are the Trees | B |
| Who travel where he goes | I |
| Over the vast inhuman wandering seas | B |
| His tutors we in that adventure brave | J |
| He launched with us upon the untried wave | J |
| And now its mastery knows | I |
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| We are the Trees | B |
| Who bear him company | K |
| In life and death His happy sylvan ease | B |
| He wins through us through us his cities spread | L |
| That like a forest guard his unfenced head | L |
| Gainst storm and bitter sky | M |
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| We are the Trees | B |
| On us the dying rest | N |
| Their strange sad eyes in farewell messages | O |
| And we his comrades still since earth began | P |
| Wave mournful boughs above the grave of man | P |
| And coffin his cold breast | N |
Mary Colborne-veel
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