Trees Against The Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAA ADADEEAA AFAFGGAA AHAHIIAA AJAJHHAA AKAKLLAAAPines 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 William Service
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