Under The Cedarcroft Chestnut Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GCGC HIHI JKJK JJJJ LIL HCHC C| Trim set in ancient sward his manful bole | A |
| Upbore his frontage largely toward the sky | B |
| We could not dream but that he had a soul | A |
| What virtue breathed from out his bravery | C |
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| We gazed o'erhead far down our deepening eyes | D |
| Rained glamours from his green midsummer mass | E |
| The worth and sum of all his centuries | F |
| Suffused his mighty shadow on the grass | E |
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| A Presence large a grave and steadfast Form | G |
| Amid the leaves' light play and fantasy | C |
| A calmness conquered out of many a storm | G |
| A Manhood mastered by a chestnut tree | C |
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| Then while his monarch fingers downward held | H |
| The rugged burrs wherewith his state was rife | I |
| A voice of large authoritative Eld | H |
| Seemed uttering quickly parables of life | I |
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| 'How Life in truth was sharply set with ills | J |
| A kernel cased in quarrels yea a sphere | K |
| Of stings and hedge hog round of mortal quills | J |
| How most men itched to eat too soon i' the year | K |
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| 'And took but wounds and worries for their pains | J |
| Whereas the wise withheld their patient hands | J |
| Nor plucked green pleasures till the sun and rains | J |
| And seasonable ripenings burst all bands | J |
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| 'And opened wide the liberal burrs of life ' | - |
| There O my Friend beneath the chestnut bough | L |
| Gazing on thee immerged in modern strife | I |
| I framed a prayer of fervency that thou | L |
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| In soul and stature larger than thy kind | H |
| Still more to this strong Form might'st liken thee | C |
| Till thy whole Self in every fibre find | H |
| The tranquil lordship of thy chestnut tree | C |
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| Tampa Florida February | C |
Sidney Lanier
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