Trees Against The Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAA ADADEEAA AFAFGGAA AHAHIIAA AJAJHHAA AKAKLLAAA| Pines against the sky | A |
| Pluming the purple hill | B |
| Pines and I wonder why | A |
| Heart you quicken and thrill | B |
| Wistful heart of a boy | C |
| Fill with a strange sweet joy | C |
| Lifting to Heaven nigh | A |
| Pines against the sky | A |
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| Palms against the sky | A |
| Failing the hot hard blue | D |
| Stark on the beach I lie | A |
| Dreaming horizons new | D |
| Heart of my youth elate | E |
| Scorning a humdrum fate | E |
| Keyed to adventure high | A |
| Palms against the sky | A |
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| Oaks against the sky | A |
| Ramparts of leaves high hurled | F |
| Staunch to stand and defy | A |
| All the winds of the world | F |
| Stalwart and proud and free | G |
| Firing the man in me | G |
| To try and again to try | A |
| Oaks against the sky | A |
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| Olives against the sky | A |
| Of evening limpidly bright | H |
| Tranquil and soft and shy | A |
| Dreaming in amber light | H |
| Breathing the peace of life | I |
| Ease after toil and strife | I |
| Hark to their silver sigh | A |
| Olives against the sky | A |
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| Cypresses glooming the sky | A |
| Stark at the end of the road | J |
| Failing and faint am I | A |
| Lief to be eased of my load | J |
| There where the stones peer white | H |
| in the last of the silvery light | H |
| Quiet and cold I'll lie | A |
| Cypresses etching the sky | A |
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| Trees trees against the sky | A |
| O I have loved them well | K |
| There are pleasures you cannot buy | A |
| Treasurers you cannot sell | K |
| And not the smallest of these | L |
| Is the gift and glory of trees | L |
| So I gaze and I know now why | A |
| It is good to live and to die | A |
| Trees and the Infinite Sky | A |
Robert Service
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