Leaves Compared With Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| A tree's leaves may be ever so good | A |
| So may its bar so may its wood | A |
| But unless you put the right thing to its root | B |
| It never will show much flower or fruit | B |
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| But I may be one who does not care | C |
| Ever to have tree bloom or bear | C |
| Leaves for smooth and bark for rough | D |
| Leaves and bark may be tree enough | D |
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| Some giant trees have bloom so small | E |
| They might as well have none at all | E |
| Late in life I have come on fern | F |
| Now lichens are due to have their turn | F |
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| I bade men tell me which in brief | G |
| Which is fairer flower or leaf | G |
| They did not have the wit to say | H |
| Leaves by night and flowers by day | H |
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| Leaves and bar leaves and bark | I |
| To lean against and hear in the dark | I |
| Petals I may have once pursued | J |
| Leaves are all my darker mood | J |
Robert Frost
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