The Spice-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCDEFE GHHDIJKK CLMLLL NNONPQRLRSDTD| This is the song | A |
| The spice tree sings | B |
| Hunger and fire | C |
| Hunger and fire | C |
| Sky born Beauty | D |
| Spice of desire | C |
| Under the spice tree | D |
| Watch and wait | E |
| Burning maidens | F |
| And lads that mate | E |
| - | |
| The spice tree spreads | G |
| And its boughs come down | H |
| Shadowing village and farm and town | H |
| And none can see | D |
| But the pure of heart | I |
| The great green leaves | J |
| And the boughs descending | K |
| And hear the song that is never ending | K |
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| The deep roots whisper | C |
| The branches say | L |
| Love to morrow | M |
| And love to day | L |
| And till Heaven's day | L |
| And till Heaven's day | L |
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| The moon is a bird's nest in its branches | N |
| The moon is hung in its topmost spaces | N |
| And there to night two doves play house | O |
| While lovers watch with uplifted faces | N |
| Two doves go home | P |
| To their nest the moon | Q |
| It is woven of twigs of broken light | R |
| With threads of scarlet and threads of gray | L |
| And a lining of down for silk delight | R |
| To their Eden the moon fly home our doves | S |
| Up through the boughs of the great spice tree | D |
| And one is the kiss I took from you | T |
| And one is the kiss you gave to me | D |
Vachel Lindsay
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