The Two Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHBAB AIJIJKLKLLMLMGNGOPLP L| Beloved gaze in thine own heart | A |
| The holy tree is growing there | B |
| From joy the holy branches start | A |
| And all the trembling flowers they bear | B |
| The changing colours of its fruit | C |
| Have dowered the stars with metry light | D |
| The surety of its hidden root | C |
| Has planted quiet in the night | D |
| The shaking of its leafy head | E |
| Has given the waves their melody | F |
| And made my lips and music wed | E |
| Murmuring a wizard song for thee | F |
| There the Joves a circle go | G |
| The flaming circle of our days | H |
| Gyring spiring to and fro | G |
| In those great ignorant leafy ways | H |
| Remembering all that shaken hair | B |
| And how the winged sandals dart | A |
| Thine eyes grow full of tender care | B |
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| Beloved gaze in thine own heart | A |
| Gaze no more in the bitter glass | I |
| The demons with their subtle guile | J |
| Lift up before us when they pass | I |
| Or only gaze a little while | J |
| For there a fatal image grows | K |
| That the stormy night receives | L |
| Roots half hidden under snows | K |
| Broken boughs and blackened leaves | L |
| For ill things turn to barrenness | L |
| In the dim glass the demons hold | M |
| The glass of outer weariness | L |
| Made when God slept in times of old | M |
| There through the broken branches go | G |
| The ravens of unresting thought | N |
| Flying crying to and fro | G |
| Cruel claw and hungry throat | O |
| Or else they stand and sniff the wind | P |
| And shake their ragged wings alas | L |
| Thy tender eyes grow all unkind | P |
| Gaze no more in the bitter glass | L |
William Butler Yeats
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