The Chestnut Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDCC EFFGHCCCHC| Who enters here beneath this guardian shade | A |
| Feels over him a tender sky of leaves | B |
| Dearer than heaven at once his eye receives | B |
| Strange quiet fathomless as water swayed | A |
| Above far sunken ships this luminous height | C |
| Of dimness interposed | C |
| Against the hot sun beams | D |
| Opens a world uncertain of cool dreams | D |
| And blurs of shadow and spots of sleepy light | C |
| With ever greener quiet charmed and closed | C |
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| Yet in the soft hung leaves a splendour lies | E |
| As though not from the far off noon it came | F |
| But in themselves a green indwelling flame | F |
| Were prisoned Here unanswered mysteries | G |
| Content me and of peace I want not more | H |
| But feed on thoughts that end | C |
| In a sweet pause of mind | C |
| As if from my own being back resigned | C |
| To the universal essence of Earth's core | H |
| Where over me the saps of life ascend | C |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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