The Forest Pine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCA DEEDFFE AEEAGGE HIIHJJI KEEKEEK LFFLMML NOPNQQP ERRESSR EQQETTE| A hundred autumns fallen in fire | A |
| To dust and mould | B |
| Have faded from their perished gold | B |
| To throne thee higher | A |
| O Titan pine that soarest straight | C |
| From ground to sky without a mate | C |
| Like one desire | A |
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| Dark is the hollow as a cup | D |
| Of shadow immense | E |
| Of daylight daunting dimness whence | E |
| Thou springest up | D |
| Far into light to take thy fill | F |
| Of splendour solitary in still | F |
| Magnificence | E |
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| Leaves of the low brake hide a stir | A |
| Of small soft things | E |
| Life busy in flit of secret wings | E |
| And slinking fur | A |
| Pricks buried seeds that upward thrust | G |
| And green through germinating dust | G |
| Triumphant stings | E |
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| But thou that seemest earth to scorn | H |
| And air to claim | I |
| With all thy plumy spire aflame | I |
| And crest upborne | H |
| In the blue air so far so high | J |
| As if the silence of the sky | J |
| About thee came | I |
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| Thou hidest all the sappy stream | K |
| That in thee swells | E |
| Motionless fibre nothing tells | E |
| And thou dost seem | K |
| To tower in glorious ignorance | E |
| Of earth's small stir and chafe a trance | E |
| A soaring dream | K |
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| And in a trance thou holdest me | L |
| With bated will | F |
| And I am still as thou art still | F |
| My spirit free | L |
| My body charm dissolved to naught | M |
| But the vibration of a thought | M |
| If thought could be | L |
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| O hush within the blood is felt | N |
| An airy fear | O |
| A faltering and the heart can hear | P |
| The silence melt | N |
| To something frailer than a sound | Q |
| Borne from the wide horizon's bound | Q |
| To the inward ear | P |
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| Slowly ah slowly a hush begins | E |
| A trembling where | R |
| Those branches sleep on golden air | R |
| And gradual wins | E |
| A voice a music a long surge | S |
| Sweet as a song sad as a dirge | S |
| Sighed out like prayer | R |
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| The singer knows not what he sings | E |
| A lonely sound | Q |
| Comes trembling through him from profound | Q |
| Aerial springs | E |
| The songs the sighs the world exiled | T |
| Seek him and in his heart throbs wild | T |
| Still their wild wings | E |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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