Among The Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRPI BSTUVBWEXYZA2 B2WC2D2E2EF2 G2H2I2J2K2L2M2EI2N2O 2P2F2BQ2R2CBGC2S2CH2 B2T2U2V2W2X2KY2Z2WVG 2A3KB3QC3 OT2D3E3F3IG3BH3 I3CC3J3ZCK3L3T2M3N3Y LBO3B2 EP3N3Q3F2CVQEI3R3S3T 3BU3V3BVO2W3X3B2Y3H3 Z3K2A4Q2F3B4C4D4M3E4 F4Y3C

Oh ye who love to overhang the springsA
And stand by running waters ye whose boughsB
Make beautiful the rocks o'er which they playC
Who pile with foliage the great hills and rearD
A paradise upon the lonely plainE
Trees of the forest and the open fieldF
Have ye no sense of being Does the airG
The pure air which I breathe with gladness passH
In gushes o'er your delicate lungs your leavesI
All unenjoyed When on your winter's sleepJ
The sun shines warm have ye no dreams of springK
And when the glorious spring time comes at lastL
Have ye no joy of all your bursting budsM
And fragrant blooms and melody of birdsN
To which your young leaves shiver Do ye striveO
And wrestle with the wind yet know it notP
Feel ye no glory in your strength when heQ
The exhausted Blusterer flies beyond the hillsR
And leaves you stronger yet Or have ye notP
A sense of loss when he has stripped your leavesI
Yet tender and has splintered your fair boughsB
Does the loud bolt that smites you from the cloudS
And rends you fall unfelt Do there not runT
Strange shudderings through your fibres when the axeU
Is raised against you and the shining bladeV
Deals blow on blow until with all their boughsB
Your summits waver and ye fall to earthW
Know ye no sadness when the hurricaneE
Has swept the wood and snapped its sturdy stemsX
Asunder or has wrenched from out the soilY
The mightiest with their circles of strong rootsZ
And piled the ruin all along his pathA2
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Nay doubt we not that under the rough rindB2
In the green veins of these fair growths of earthW
There dwells a nature that receives delightC2
From all the gentle processes of lifeD2
And shrinks from loss of being Dim and faintE2
May be the sense of pleasure and of painE
As in our dreams but haply real stillF2
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Our sorrows touch you not We watch besideG2
The beds of those who languish or who dieH2
And minister in sadness while our heartsI2
Offer perpetual prayer for life and easeJ2
And health to the belov d sufferersK2
But ye while anxious fear and fainting hopeL2
Are in our chambers ye rejoice withoutM2
The funeral goes forth a silent trainE
Moves slowly from the desolate home our heartsI2
Are breaking as we lay away the lovedN2
Whom we shall see no more in their last restO2
Their little cells within the burial placeP2
Ye have no part in this distress for stillF2
The February sunshine steeps your boughsB
And tints the buds and swells the leaves withinQ2
While the song sparrow warbling from her perchR2
Tells you that spring is near The wind of MayC
Is sweet with breath of orchards in whose boughsB
The bees and every insect of the airG
Make a perpetual murmur of delightC2
And by whose flowers the humming bird hangs poisedS2
In air and draws their sweets and darts awayC
The linden in the fervors of JulyH2
Hums with a louder concert When the windB2
Sweeps the broad forest in its summer primeT2
As when some master hand exulting sweepsU2
The keys of some great organ ye give forthV2
The music of the woodland depths a hymnW2
Of gladness and of thanks The hermit thrushX2
Pipes his sweet note to make your arches ringK
The faithful robin from the wayside elmY2
Carols all day to cheer his sitting mateZ2
And when the autumn comes the kings of earthW
In all their majesty are not arrayedV
As ye are clothing the broad mountain sideG2
And spotting the smooth vales with red and goldA3
While swaying to the sudden breeze ye flingK
Your nuts to earth and the brisk squirrel comesB3
To gather them and barks with childish gleeQ
And scampers with them to his hollow oakC3
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Thus as the seasons pass ye keep aliveO
The cheerfulness of Nature till in timeT2
The constant misery which wrings the heartD3
Relents and we rejoice with you againE3
And glory in your beauty till once moreF3
We look with pleasure on your varnished leavesI
That gayly glance in sunshine and can hearG3
Delighted the soft answer which your boughsB
Utter in whispers to the babbling brookH3
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Ye have no history I cannot knowI3
Who when the hillside trees were hewn awayC
Haply two centuries since bade spare this oakC3
Leaning to shade with his irregular armsJ3
Low bent and long the fount that from his rootsZ
Slips through a bed of cresses toward the bayC
I know not who but thank him that he leftK3
The tree to flourish where the acorn fellL3
And join these later days to that far timeT2
While yet the Indian hunter drew the bowM3
In the dim woods and the white woodman firstN3
Opened these fields to sunshine turned the soilY
And strewed the wheat An unremembered PastL
Broods like a presence mid the long gray boughsB
Of this old tree which has outlived so longO3
The flitting generations of mankindB2
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Ye have no history I ask in vainE
Who planted on the slope this lofty groupP3
Of ancient pear trees that with spring time burstN3
Into such breadth of bloom One bears a scarQ3
Where the quick lightning scored its trunk yet stillF2
It feels the breath of Spring and every MayC
Is white with blossoms Who it was that laidV
Their infant roots in earth and tenderlyQ
Cherished the delicate sprays I ask in vainE
Yet bless the unknown hand to which I oweI3
This annual festival of bees these songsR3
Of birds within their leafy screen these shoutsS3
Of joy from children gathering up the fruitT3
Shaken in August from the willing boughsB
Ye that my hands have planted or have sparedU3
Beside the way or in the orchard groundV3
Or in the open meadow ye whose boughsB
With every summer spread a wider shadeV
Whose herd in coming years shall lie at restO2
Beneath your noontide shelter who shall pluckW3
Your ripened fruit who grave as was the wontX3
Of simple pastoral ages on the rindB2
Of my smooth beeches some beloved nameY3
Idly I ask yet may the eyes that lookH3
Upon you in your later nobler growthZ3
Look also on a nobler age than oursK2
An age when in the eternal strife betweenA4
Evil and Good the Power of Good shall winQ2
A grander mastery when kings no moreF3
Shall summon millions from the plough to learnB4
The trade of slaughter and of populous realmsC4
Make camps of war when in our younger landD4
The hand of ruffian Violence that nowM3
Is insolently raised to smite shall fallE4
Unnerved before the calm rebuke of LawF4
And Fraud his sly confederate shrink in shameY3
Back to his covert and forego his preyC

William Cullen Bryant



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