The Elm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCACA DADAEECEC AAAAAABAB ACACAAFAF GCDCHHIHI| O that I had a tongue that could express | A |
| Half of that peace thou ownest darkling Tree | B |
| A slumber shaded with the heaviness | A |
| That droops thy leaves hangs deeply over me | B |
| Far off the evening light | C |
| Takes dim farewell with hesitating Night | C |
| Day softly parleys each her hour suspends | A |
| Hushing the harboured winds lest they affright | C |
| Ripe summer that the falling leaf attends | A |
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| Fresh are the fields and like a bloom they wear | D |
| This delicate evening Peace upon them lies | A |
| So soft I marvel that their slopes to air | D |
| Dissolve not ere foot reach them dewy skies | A |
| In dream the distance steep | E |
| Thou only solitary Elm dost keep | E |
| Firm root in earth and with thy musing crest | C |
| Unmoved and darkly branching arms asleep | E |
| As truth in dream my spirit anchorest | C |
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| O surely Sleep inhabits in thy boughs | A |
| Sleep that knows all things each well hid distress | A |
| And private sigh that all men's plea allows | A |
| And is acquainted with the happiness | A |
| Removed of him that grieves | A |
| Surely beneath thy grave and tranquil leaves | A |
| He will unfold the obstinate mystery | B |
| That to our questing thought for ever cleaves | A |
| And I may hold in my own hand the key | B |
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| To pierce the veil and seeing with clear eyes | A |
| Wonder that riddles ever vext our lot | C |
| What joy For did perfidious Earth devise | A |
| Our desolation were her felon plot | C |
| To flatter with fair shows | A |
| That we her purpose out of useless woes | A |
| Might fashion baited by a glorious lure | F |
| You could not O dark leaves such deep repose | A |
| Imitate nor conspire to seem secure | F |
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| You as a child exclaims the natural fear | G |
| Which men dissemble what you could not hide | C |
| Would utter but you sleep remote from care | D |
| Still tree by thy dumb augury I abide | C |
| Nor further ask thee tell | H |
| Things for the time imprisoned I the spell | H |
| Might break and thou the rash intruder scorn | I |
| Enough that what I know not thou know'st well | H |
| Unagitated nor hast need to mourn | I |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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