The Forest Pine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCA DEEDFFE AEEAGGE HIIHJJI KEEKEEK LFFLMML NOPNQQP ERRESSR EQQETTE

A hundred autumns fallen in fireA
To dust and mouldB
Have faded from their perished goldB
To throne thee higherA
O Titan pine that soarest straightC
From ground to sky without a mateC
Like one desireA
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Dark is the hollow as a cupD
Of shadow immenseE
Of daylight daunting dimness whenceE
Thou springest upD
Far into light to take thy fillF
Of splendour solitary in stillF
MagnificenceE
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Leaves of the low brake hide a stirA
Of small soft thingsE
Life busy in flit of secret wingsE
And slinking furA
Pricks buried seeds that upward thrustG
And green through germinating dustG
Triumphant stingsE
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But thou that seemest earth to scornH
And air to claimI
With all thy plumy spire aflameI
And crest upborneH
In the blue air so far so highJ
As if the silence of the skyJ
About thee cameI
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Thou hidest all the sappy streamK
That in thee swellsE
Motionless fibre nothing tellsE
And thou dost seemK
To tower in glorious ignoranceE
Of earth's small stir and chafe a tranceE
A soaring dreamK
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And in a trance thou holdest meL
With bated willF
And I am still as thou art stillF
My spirit freeL
My body charm dissolved to naughtM
But the vibration of a thoughtM
If thought could beL
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O hush within the blood is feltN
An airy fearO
A faltering and the heart can hearP
The silence meltN
To something frailer than a soundQ
Borne from the wide horizon's boundQ
To the inward earP
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Slowly ah slowly a hush beginsE
A trembling whereR
Those branches sleep on golden airR
And gradual winsE
A voice a music a long surgeS
Sweet as a song sad as a dirgeS
Sighed out like prayerR
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The singer knows not what he singsE
A lonely soundQ
Comes trembling through him from profoundQ
Aerial springsE
The songs the sighs the world exiledT
Seek him and in his heart throbs wildT
Still their wild wingsE

Robert Laurence Binyon



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