When Great Trees Fall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF AGHIJ KLMFFNFOPQRST OUVWXBOYXHZYHYA2 YB2C2D2E2TBVYFY| When great trees fall | A |
| rocks on distant hills shudder | B |
| lions hunker down | C |
| in tall grasses | D |
| and even elephants | E |
| lumber after safety | F |
| - | |
| When great trees fall | A |
| in forests | G |
| small things recoil into silence | H |
| their senses | I |
| eroded beyond fear | J |
| - | |
| When great souls die | K |
| the air around us becomes | L |
| light rare sterile | M |
| We breathe briefly | F |
| Our eyes briefly | F |
| see with | N |
| a hurtful clarity | F |
| Our memory suddenly sharpened | O |
| examines | P |
| gnaws on kind words | Q |
| unsaid | R |
| promised walks | S |
| never taken | T |
| - | |
| Great souls die and | O |
| our reality bound to | U |
| them takes leave of us | V |
| Our souls | W |
| dependent upon their | X |
| nurture | B |
| now shrink wizened | O |
| Our minds formed | Y |
| and informed by their | X |
| radiance | H |
| fall away | Z |
| We are not so much maddened | Y |
| as reduced to the unutterable ignorance | H |
| of dark cold | Y |
| caves | A2 |
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| And when great souls die | Y |
| after a period peace blooms | B2 |
| slowly and always | C2 |
| irregularly Spaces fill | D2 |
| with a kind of | E2 |
| soothing electric vibration | T |
| Our senses restored never | B |
| to be the same whisper to us | V |
| They existed They existed | Y |
| We can be Be and be | F |
| better For they existed | Y |
Maya Angelou
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