To A Solitary Fir-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNNBB| Fir that on this moor austere | A |
| Without kin or neighbour near | A |
| Utterest now bleak winter's moan | B |
| As if its vext soul were thine own | B |
| Unbefriended placed like thee | C |
| Ah how lonely should I be | C |
| But luminous midsummer nights | D |
| Faintly filled with starry lights | D |
| Morns miraculously clear | A |
| In the soft youth of the year | A |
| Autumn mists and evenings chill | E |
| Find thee proudly patient still | E |
| None can mar thy steadfast mood | F |
| Thy stanch and stately fortitude | F |
| Had I no heart to strive to crave | G |
| I too perchance could be as brave | G |
| But oh to crave and not be filled | H |
| With passionate longing never stilled | H |
| Desiring in the midst of bliss | I |
| Thou strong Tree thou know'st not this | I |
| The outstretched arms the hungry eyes | J |
| Gazing up to silent skies | J |
| Beautiful silent skies of June | K |
| And radiant mystery of the moon | K |
| To buy peace we men forget | L |
| But peace is in thy fibres set | L |
| If thou art not stirred with joy | M |
| Thou hast nothing that can cloy | M |
| Without effort without strife | N |
| Art thyself and liv'st thy life | N |
| This solitude thou hast not known | B |
| Both to be human and alone | B |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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